University students parade through the streets of Cardiff on floats to raise money for charity.
Full title reads: "Cardiff. 'It was a wonderful Rag ... yes, indeed!' University students garner great harvest for charity."
Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales.
Decorated lorries make their way down a crowded street. The people on the lorries are wearing fancy dress.
One float has a rather nasty looking scaffold on the back from which hangs an effigy of a man. Another lorry goes past with a 'Buy British' poster on the side.
Several horse drawn floats go past. A male student goes past dressed in a policeman's helmet and wearing a skirt. More lorries go past. The themes they represent are not easy to distinguish. One of the shops the lorries drive past is holding a 'genuine clearance sale'.
Terrorism is nothing new. The Pathe archive has a vast collection of material related to terrorist attacks dating back to 1919 right through to the 2005 London bombings.
The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.
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A Student Rag in Bradford, Cyclists at a Service of Remembrance, Mussolini watching show Jumping, The Church Lads Brigade, Admiral Byrd's return and Dorothy Hyson's wedding.
The death penalty has been carried out in almost all societies and although these images from WWI and WWII are unsettling, they still provide a raw account of events from a certain time.
The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.
Animals are often the forgotten army of World War I. They displayed unwavering courage even when exposed to extreme conditions. British Pathé pay tribute to these forgotten warriors.
WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.
British Pathé filmed the 20th Century's biggest names, some of them before they even became famous. Click through and guess who these soon-to-be celebrities were when first captured by our cameras.
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.Take a look at some of the more unusual but ingenious ideas that people have had to beat the traffic.
Over its history, the Pathe cameras filmed a number of people who had committed heinous crimes. So in no particular order, these images show ten faces of truly evil men and women.
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