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Druids, Romans and Norman knights return to Richmond for the 600th anniversary of the Yorkshire town's charter.

Battered, bandaged and playing croquet on crutches, wounded First World War soldiers get a break from the Western Front.

Billy the pet seal adapts to village life in Wereham, Norfolk.

No fewer than five once or future prime ministers on show at the momentous 1923 election.

Talented and obedient Red Cross dogs prepare to rescue Berlin's wounded from the Front.

Picturesque scenes of land girls gathering hay on an Essex farm during WWI.

During an unusually harsh winter, a frozen trawler arrives on the river Thames.

On a blustery January day bishops arrive for the opening of the new Knutsford Test School.

Feathered friends prepare to meet their fate in this seasonal newsreel outing to a Norfolk turkey farm.

Colonial troops greet London's new Lord Mayor in a patriotic wartime ceremony.

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

A gleaming giant of steam and its cute Lilliputian cousin are an even match in this newsreel battle of the trains.

The devil makes the biggest splash at Cookham's famed regatta.

“Chicago’s Titanic” the S.S. Eastland, a Great Lakes passenger ship in which 844 people lost their lives, is brought up from the seabed.

The British Fascist movement holds a 10,000-strong rally in Trafalgar Square the day before Remembrance Sunday.

Lunch on the Eiffel Tower held in honour of the visit of the representatives of foreign municipalities.

Private Daly of the Connaught Rangers triumphs in the Aldershot Command annual cross country race, months before the outbreak of WWI.

Stunning views from the boundary of the 1921 Australian touring team's first match.

The start of the fox hunting season with the Cattistock Hunt in Maiden Newton, Dorset.

The annual mop fair in Stratford-Upon-Avon, including the roasting of an ox.