London's May Queen Topical Budget 246-1
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London's May Queen Topical Budget 246-1
Excitable children in their Sunday finery gawp at cameras during the parade for London's May Queen.
The All-England May Queen festival was first held at Hayes Common, Bromley, in 1913, organised by a Dulwich folklore enthusiast. This film from 1916 shows that year's May Queen, Miss Cecily Smith, sitting in a decorated cart pulled by children, preceded by other children carrying banners. She carries a sceptre, and like many of the girls is wearing white and garlands of flowers. Children gawp at the camera as they pass, before Smith receives her crown on the common.
The All-England May Queen festival was first held at Hayes Common, Bromley, in 1913, organised by a Dulwich folklore enthusiast. This film from 1916 shows that year’s May Queen, Miss Cecily Smith, sitting in a decorated cart pulled by children, preceded by other children carrying banners. She carries a sceptre, and like many of the girls is wearing white and garlands of flowers. Children gawp at the camera as they pass, before Smith receives her crown on the common.
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The First World War: The Home Front
Keeping the home fires burning: how millions of Britons endured the 'war to end all wars'.
For those who lived through it, the First World War was a harrowing experience. Millions of Britons faced death, injury and trauma on the battlefronts, and life wasn’t necessarily that much easier for those they left behind in Blighty.
Shortages of food and fuel made daily life a ceaseless grind, never mind the ever-present dread of enemy bombs or of telegrams carrying grim news. But life went on, and there was work to be done; factories were refitted to make munitions and materiel, while with so many men serving at the fronts, women stepped up in their millions to work the machines or farm the fields.
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Keep the Home Fires Burning
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England Expects Topical Budget 165-2
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For the Wounded Topical Budget 217-2
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The London Scottish Topical Budget 167-1
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Ramsgate Zeppelin Raid. Showing Damage Done to the Bull and George Hotel. Pathé's Animated Gazette No. 323b
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War Time Weddings Topical Budget 220-2
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"Stop the War" Demonstration in Trafalgar Square Gaumont Graphic No. 352
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Battle Front in Britain
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'Rohilla' Wrecked off Whitby
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London: Air Raid, 1917
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Anti-German Riots in Liverpool following the Loss of 'Lusitania'
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The Wrecked "Rohilla" Topical Budget 167-1
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A Patriotic Offer Topical Budget 167-1
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The Sound of the Drum Topical Budget 168-1
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Sons of the Empire Topical Budget 165-2
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Scout's Valuable Aid
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Conscription
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Recruiting for the 5th Essex
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Tommy's Tinder Box: Chipping Flints Which are Used As a Substitute for Matches in the rain-soaked Trenches
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In the Track of the Zepps Warwick Bioscope Chronicle 257-2
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Kite Balloons
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To Aid the Motherland
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Merrie Territorials Topical Budget 205-2
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Citizen Army Inspected Topical Budget 219-1
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More Ammunition Topical Budget 179-1
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Garibaldians Help Recruiting Warriors of 1867 at the Head of a Recruiting March
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A Battlefield Romance Topical Budget 199-1
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Labour's Recruiting Appeal Topical Budget 220-1
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Ireland Welcomes O'Leary V.C. Topical Budget 202-2
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Red Cross Barges
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The German Trenches after Three Days' Bombardment
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Heroes of Neuve Chapelle Tenderly Cared for at the Queen's Canadian Military Hospital near Shorncliffe
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More Men Wanted Topical Budget 197-1
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'Let Them all Come!'
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The Frontiersmen Inspected by Sir Francis Lloyd at Horse Guards Parade Just before Departure
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Lord Kitchener at the Guildhall Warwick Bioscope Chronicle No. 261-2
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A Hero of the Trenches
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Married Mens' Call Topical Budget 241-2
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Tests from Aeroplanes
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U.S.A. Airship Somewhere in England
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Anzac Day Topical Budget 244-1
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Blinded Soldiers Playing Push Ball Topical Budget 244-1
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Hands Off Baby's Milk Topical Budget 270-1
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Devonshire Hospital Buxton Topical Budget 268-2
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The Home-coming of Private Young, Preston's V.C.
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Women's Work in Wartime
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Some war-time Types. The W.L.A. Girl
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Mrs. Cooper's Film No 1
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Women Unloading Railway Trucks Topical Budget 289-1
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Everybody's Business
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His Majesty's Visit to His Grand Fleet
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Entertaining Soldiers After the Raid Topical Budget 307-1
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Notts Women's Great War Rally Topical Budget 146-2
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World's Largest Photograph Topical Budget 340-1
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Record Breaking Riveters Topical Budget 353-1
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Pirate Boats at Westminster Topical Budget 380-1
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The Tank Bank's Tour through Scotland
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Our Glorious Mystery Ships Topical Budget 380-1
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The Building and Launch of the "Crepath" at Barnstaple
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Broken in the Wars
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A New Version
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Tank 'Julian' in Merthyr
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The Leopard's Spots
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The Warrior's May Queen Topical Budget 350-1
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Chiswick's Gallant Gunner Topical Budget 266-1
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Fallen Heroes Topical Budget 339-1
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Pacifists Routed at Brotherhood Church Topical Budget 310-1
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Munition Workers at Play Topical Budget 211-1
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Women Farm Workers
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Eccentric Club Entertain Wounded Soldiers Topical Budget 253-1
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Army Economy Topical Budget 273-1
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In the Interests of Mercy Topical Budget 231-1
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London's May Queen Topical Budget 246-1
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With the Queen at Woolwich War Office Official Topical Budget 322-1
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Richmond Boys Naval Brigade Topical Budget 264-1
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Hoylake and West Kirby's Tribute to Local V.C
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Inspection of Special Constables Topical Budget 256-1
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E.R. Calthrop's Patent Safety Guardian Angel Parachute: Tests and Dem
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Home Coming of the Bedfords
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Lewis Gun Drill
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Lewis Gun Care and Cleaning: Part A, Laying out Kit
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Aircraft Film of Lady Sybil Grant
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Sea-Plane Launching Apparatus
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Parachute Descent from an Airship
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Mighty Atoms
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No Mischief Here Can Satan Find for Idle Hands to Do
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Troops Training for the First World War
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Wimbledon Election Topical Budget 244-1
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Airship on a Mooring Mast
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