John Ainsworth (Lloyd Hughes) has been out of work for months when he runs into two old university acquaintances. They take a drink at a city bar, where a man selling shoelaces approaches.

We pay tribute to aviation pioneer Amy Johnson this International Women's Day

Johnnie, our aeroplane girl [sheet music] / words and music by Jack Lumsdaine, Columbia Records, 1930.

Song about female aviator Amy Johnson written by Jack O’Hagan and sung by Bob Molyneux.

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An 80-tonne arch rib is placed on top of the main bearing as a worker guides it into place. Another man, who appears to be on a cable phone, also supervises the work.

Part of the National Film and Sound Archive’s ongoing preservation of the Efftee Film Productions output in the early 1930s, Dear Old London captures scenes of a city emerging from the effects of t

Part of the National Film and Sound Archive’s ongoing preservation of the Efftee Film Productions output in the early 1930s, Dear Old London captures scenes of a city emerging from the effects of t

A group of women talk about their experiences with the Leahy brothers. They describe how, as young women, their people sold them to the Leahy brothers for sexual purposes.

In interview and voice-over, James Leahy recollects the first time the Leahy brothers came across a new community of highlanders.