University Procession on Degree Day, Birmingham (1901) | BFI National Archive

This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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[@LynnJepson]

Fascinating. Thank you for posting!

[@paulcharles5128]

You've deliberately cut this film short. Neville Chamberlain appears in the longer version.

[@livingprooffilms]

Birmingham FTW

[@twoslices]

Young men smoked pipes back then!

[@andysmith5997]

Women,with degrees? I thought that was illegal? Have I been lied to?

[@Michael-jh9fd]

Is that a black man at 1:12 ?

[@alextaylor9746]

Looks it

[@WHEATLEY007]

and at 0:55

[@Elcore]

Impossible. Everyone knows the first ever black man in history was Sidney Poitier.