Boys Collection (page 20)

Children campaigning against nursery cuts
Children campaigning against cuts to nursery education, some of them wearing teeshirts which read: I Like Nursery, 7 July 1979. Date: 1979

Child campaigning against nursery cuts, Lewes, Sussex
A child and several mothers campaigning against cuts in nursery education, Lewes, Sussex, 17 June 1980. Date: 1980

Children drinking milk in a playground, Woolwich, London
Children at a school in Woolwich, south east London, drinking milk in a playground around the time free school milk was discontinued. The school was distributing milk in defiance of the change

Children campaigning against cuts in free school milk
Children campaigning against planned cuts in free school milk and other services, October 1970. Date: 1970

Children campaigning against education cuts, Essex
Children campaigning against education cuts in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, March 1982. Their placards read: No Cuts, and I Need My Teacher. Date: 1982

Children campaigning against education cuts, Ealing
Children campaigning against education cuts outside Ealing Town Hall, West London, January 1980, where an anti-cuts meeting was being held about the possible closure of a local school

Children campaigning against education cuts, Sussex, May 1981. Their placards read: No Art, No Music = No Joy, The Unkindest Cuts, Keep Nursery School, and Save School Swimming. Date: 1981

Children campaigning against education cuts, Bristol
Children campaigning against education cuts, April 1977. The walkout and march from a Bristol comprehensive school was organised by the NUSS (National Union of School Students). Date: 1977

Polling Station, Referendum Day, 5 June 1975
Scene outside a Polling Station in the London Borough of Wandsworth, 5 June 1975. A Referendum was being held on the UK's membership of the EEC (now the EU), which it had joined in 1973

Boy scouts in a Pharaoh's tomb, Egypt, looking at a statue in a niche

Woodwork classroom for boys who continued their education at Acland County Council School, Kentish Town, London. Date: 1906

Acland County Council School, Kentish Town 1906
Conventional way of teaching where all the pupils are facing the front of the classroom while the teacher is writing on the chalkboard. Date: 1906

Gifts of Pears Soap been wrapped up to be sent to the front during World War Two. Date: 1915

Band and Pipers at Gordon Boys Orphanage, Dover, Kent
The Scottish-style pipe band at the Gordon Boys Orphanage, Dover. The boys pose with their instruments. The home was founded by local philanthropist Thomas Blackman

Spanish Civil War child refugees arrive at Southampton, 1937
Children from Bilbao waiting to land from the Spanish Compania transaltantic liner Habana at Southampton docks-child refugees evacuated to England during the Spanish Civil War, 1937

Tashkent secondary school
Boys reading books in the library of their secondary school in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Date: 1950s

Teacher reading to children
A group of young children huddle around their teacher and listen intently as she reads from a book. Part of the exchange of culture that was the British-Soviet Friendship society. Date: 1960s

Children playing violins
A girl and a boy stand by a window in silhouette playing violins while another girl looks at some sheet music. An example of Soviet British exchange of musical culture in schools as part of

African orphan behind weapons
A Mozambiquan orphan boy stands behind a rack of g-3 machine pistols belonging to Portuguese colonial soldiers who murdered his parents in the midst of the Portuguese Colonial War (19611974)

Tommy Steele, English entertainer
Tommy Steele (Thomas William Hicks, b 1936), English singer, actor and entertainer. Seen here with a group of adults and children. Date: circa 1960s

Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), Russian Soviet leader, seen here hugging a little boy who has just presented him with a bunch of flowers, surrounded by happy, smiling people. Date: circa 1950s

Ernest Bevin, British Labour politician
Ernest Bevin (1881-1951), British Labour politician. He served as Minister of Labour in the wartime coalition government, and as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour Government

Windsor Castle and Eton Boat House
View of Windsor Castle and the landing stage outside the Eton Boat House. The union flag is at half mast due to the recent death of King Edward VII. Date: May 1910

Cemetery at Bouzareah - Algiers, Algeria Date: circa 1910s

Norman Dodds MP and Teddy boys
Norman Noel Dodds (1903-1965), Cooperative politician pictured talking to some Teddy boys in a bar or pub. MP for Dartford from 1945-1955 and for Erith

These are scenes from the London Orphan Asylum in Watford. 1) boys doing drill 2) the boys band 3) sewing class 4) the Prince of Wales proposing the toast of the asylum at the Jubilee Dinner at

Captured Republican Troops near Bilbao; Spanish Civil War, 1
Photograph showing a group of captured Nationalist troops, wearing dark berets, roped together at the wrist being, interrogated by a Nationalist officer, near Bilbao, 1936

Exterior view of Harrow School, showing boys wearing their boaters. Date: 1896

Royal Philanthropic Society at Redhill, Surrey was set up to help homeless boys that were begging or would have entered into crime, a skill that they could apply into adulthood. Date: 1872

A study in an infant school, where the young children are learning their left and right hands. Date: 1898

Shadow Show - Silhouette Cut-Outs 1881
A fold-out page from The Boy's Own Paper for a shadow show stand with various silhouettes surrounding, to be cut-out, to entertain children for Christmas. Date: 1881

Thaumatropes - Cut-Out 1881
A fold-out page from The Boy's Own Paper of a thaumatropes. A disc shape optical toy that was popular in the 19th century. Date: 1881

Children of London's West End. Boys: knitted jersey suits with knickerbockers. Girls: pink polonaise & sunbonnet; lilac dress with yoke, sash, gathered bodice & gigot sleeves Date: 1884

A young boy brushes his shoes. Date: 1910

Oaks Colliery 1866
The colliery at Barnsley, England, where three explosions in December 1866 left a total of 361 men and boys dead. Date: December 1866

CORPORAL
A Corporal from the 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own). A famous regiment known as the Death or Glory Boys

BOYS IN CEMETERY
Four boys in a country churchyard treat the gravestones with something less than proper respect Date: circa 1830

Barbados - Native Crockery Sellers. Date: circa 1904

Waifs and Strays Boys Home, Burgess Hill
Inmates of the Waifs and Strays Society Boys Home, Burgess Hill, Sussex. Date: 1922

Reception of the hostages from Tipu Sahib, Sultan of Mysore, by Lord Cornwallis, March 1792. Tipus two sons, aged about ten and eight

Thomas Thorne as Perkyn Middlewick in Our Boys Date: 1890s

Christmas postcard, Three children carol singing in the street Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little boy and Allied leaders, WW1 - French, Kitchener and Jellicoe Date: 1914-1918

Comic postcard, Children in a rowing boat on the sea Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Three children building sandcastle Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Boy reading Home Doctor book - kidney trouble Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Boy and girl, birds and bees Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women and a little boy Date: 20th century

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