The University of Birmingham was the first of the new redbrick universities established in the 1900s. The city's Victoria Square played host to its first Degree Day ceremony in July 1901, captured in this extract from a four-reel film preserved in the Mitchell & Kenyon collection. Alongside both male and female graduates, look out for the medical students waving bones at the camera.
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