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Topical Budget 822-1: The Spirit of Empire (1927)
 

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Children throughout the British Empire celebrated Empire Day on May 24th (Queen Victoria's birthday), a tradition instituted in 1904. Children dressed up in the costumes of lands they had never seen (except on the cinema screen) and expressed their loyalty to the Empire.

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Topical Budget: British Identity and the Empire