The Blakes Slept Here is a 1953 British second feature ('B')[1] short Technicolor film directed by Jacques Brunius and starring Harcourt Williams, David King-Wood and Dorothy Gordon.

The film chronicles the life of a middle-class British family, the Blakes, from roughly 1850 to the end of World War II.

Domestic scenes and a little newsreel material – Queen Victoria's jubilee, King George V's coronation, the first world war – add up to social history without tears, but without much subtlety to it either.

Elegant, graceful, smoothly acted and cleverly interlaced with topicals, it traces the history of a family through four generations, and subtly tempers fact with popular sentiment and humour, and makes gentle sport of women's emancipation.

"[6] The Daily Film Renter wrote: "Gently barbed irony at expense of past generations, all inhabitants of some London house, ending with satire on present occupant's "modern" mode of expression and modernistic furnishings.