The Song of the Shirt

Walter Potter: The Man Who Married Kittens

Amateur taxidermist, Walter Potter, became an unlikely success by putting his creatures in human positions and scenarios, referred to as anthropomorph

2015

Many Beautiful Things

In an age when women were incapable of joining the artistic dialogue, Lilias Trotter managed to win the favour of celebrated critics.

2015

Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley on the Case of Conan Doyle

The ultimate power struggle between the greatest detective who never lived and the writer who came to resent him. Lucy Worsley explores an extraordina

2023

Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes

At the end of the Victorian era, E. W. Barton-Wright combined jiujitsu, kickboxing, and stick fighting into the "Gentlemanly Art of Self Defence" know

2011

Shadow of the Ripper

Jack the Ripper was a prince, a pauper, a mason, a madman... A host of more and more bizarre theories have surrounded the unexplained killings in Whit

1988

City of Westminster

A tour of central London locations, including Whitehall and Trafalgar Square. An important document for Edwardian London.

1909

Captain Elliot's Circle

Equal parts documentary, essay, and narrative,"Captain Elliot's Circle" is mostly a poetic interaction with an obscure corner of Chinese and British h

2023

Iranian Yellow Pages

Striving to build a successful life in London, Reza places an ad in a peculiar newspaper and discovers the Iranian community hidden in plain sight. Wi

2024

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

Documentary about life in the Royal Navy during the era of Horatio Nelson

2005

Brontë Country: The Story of Emily, Charlotte & Anne Brontë

Travel back to Victorian Britain and wander the cobbled streets of Haworth to the sites that inspired the great Brontë sisters’ classic novels.

2002

The Year Of Punk

The summer of the Jubilee in 1977 was mentally dominated by another national anthem - "God Save the Queen" by The Sex Pistols. That same summer was al

1978

Boys Scrambling For Pennies

Young boys going into the sea water by Brighton's West Pier in the UK to pick up pennies thrown in by people on the pier.

1896

Carousel

An actuallity film of a fairground carousel in action. Filmmaker unknown but it has been suggested it is R.W. Paul. The film was made on Hampstead hea

1896

Memento Mori

A post-mortem photographer's certainties are shaken by his latest subject, a recently deceased young woman.

2021

A Werewolf in England

In Victorian-Era England, a Parish Councillor and criminal take refuge from a storm, at a remote countryside Inn. Forced to stay the night, they soon

2020

The Best House in London

In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.

1969

The Wolfman

Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonl

2010

Far from the Madding Crowd

Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely diverg

1967

Enola Holmes 3

The Time Machine

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.

1960