1979: Will WORD PROCESSORS start a HOME WORKING revolution? | Past Predictions
Old UK Luke Casey examines the impact of the microprocessor in the workplace. Already, the adoption of word processors and[…]
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1966: Children imagine life in the year 2000 | Tomorrow’s World | Past Predictions
Old UK Pupils from Marlborough college, Roedean and Chippenham schools predict what life will be like for them in the[…]
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1964: Stefan Westmann: How it felt to kill a man | The Great War Interviews
Old UK Stefan Westmann, who served as a Corporal with the German 29th Infantry Division, remembers – with harrowing candour[…]
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1985: Introducing the AMIGA | Micro Live | Retro Tech
Old UK Fred Harris gets his hands on the new Commodore Amiga, a personal computer so advanced that you can[…]
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1970: The FLYING CAR is here! | Tomorrow’s World | Retro Transport
Old UK Say goodbye to the tedium of traffic jams, with Aerocar. Derek Cooper reports on a German flying car[…]
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1977: OLIVER REED at home in BROOME HALL | Nationwide | Classic Celebrity Interview
Old UK Valerie Singleton takes a trip to Broome Hall in Surrey, the unlikely home of notorious hellraiser Oliver Reed.[…]
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1953: Driving the QUEEN’S CORONATION route | BBC Newsreel | Iconic News Stories
Old UK On the day before the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Berkeley Smith takes a BBC Television van along[…]
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1975: The AMAZING MATCHSTICK MAN | Nationwide
Old UK “All it takes is a steady hand, infinite patience, and eye for minute detail, and some bits of[…]
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1986: LEIGH BOWERY’s Outrageous Fashion | The Clothes Show | Vintage Fashion Clips
Old UK Avant-garde fashion designer Leigh Bowery gives The Clothes Show cameras a twirl in some of his favourite outfits.[…]
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1978: Do the BRITISH PUBLIC want KILOMETRES? | Nationwide | Voice of the People
Old UK Nationwide takes to the streets of London, to gauge the public’s enthusiasm (or lack thereof) for a potential[…]
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1952: Britain’s BICYCLE Industry
Old UK BBC Television Newsreel’s industrial correspondent Bertram Mycock reports from a Midlands factory about the burgeoning British bicycle export[…]
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1986: BIG BEN is missing a BONG!
Old UK When passers by heard a dull thunk rather than a rousing bong emanating from the famous old clock[…]
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Kings of the Forest, 1992
London Archives This film was made by Stuart Monro in October 1992 for the Corporation of London and features a[…]
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British Union of Fascists March October 3rd 1937
UK Archival Footage A year after the Battle of Cable Street, Oswald Mosley’s Fascists are again out in force, seeking[…]
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Netflix Culture Is ‘On the Edge of Chaos,’ Says Co-CEO
Culture Reed Hastings, co-chief executive officer and co-founder of Netflix Inc., discusses the company’s culture that he has shaped over[…]
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