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Cooking classes. Illustration published in the Illustrated London News, 1921. Engraving

The Flying Pole. 2nd half 17 c. Viceroyalty of New Spain. Panel screen with genre scenes. Lower detail with pulque drinkers and fight. Mexican School. Oil on canvas. SPAIN

POSADA, Jos頇uadalupe (1852-1913). Printed songs
POSADA, Jos頇 uadalupe (1852-1913). Printed songs 1901. En alta mar (Waltz) and Dance of the forty-one. Zinc engraving printed in the press of A. Vanegas Arroyo

China - Hong Kong shweing peak and peak railway
Lantern slide of Hong Kong shweing peak and peak railway. In 1881 Alexander Findlay Smith first put the project of a Peak Railway into shape

Ladies working in a Russian soldiers home under Bolsheviks
Those who suffer under the revolutionary regime - Russian ladies earning their living as cleaners I a home for soldiers. Scene showing upper class women employed in scrubbing

Training munition workers at Shoreditch Technical Institute
Scenes showing the training of munition workers at Shoreditch Technical Institute (run by London County Council) during the First World War

Women being trained at an L. C. C. technical college, WW1
Women and men together studying the theory of machine tool using at the Shoreditch Technical Institute during the First World War

Votes for Women Unity is Strength. The fight for the vote unites women of all ages and all classes who dance together under the chorus Votes for Women. Date: circa 1908

Society ladies in The Great Love - patriotic war film, WW1
A double page spread from The Sketch magazine showing four scenes from the patriotic war film, The Great Love. Directed by D. W

Cruikshank, The Gin Shop, plate 12
This is the cottage, the home of delight, Whence prayer, like an incense, ascends day and night, Where joy and contentment sit smiling so bright - Whence came this glad home where such comforts unite

The Rutland Hospital, WW1
Lady Diana Manners (later Cooper), Nurse White, Nurse Manley and Violet, Duchess of Rutland (the mother of Diana) pictured at the military hospital the latter set up at the familys London home during

Mrs Geoffrey Fry by Madame Yevonde
The Hon. Alethea or Alathea Gardner (1893 - ), second daughter of Herbert Gardner, 1st Lord Burghclere. Married Sir Geoffrey Storrs Fry in 1915. Was a good friend of Princess Mary

Lady Drogheda & her children, aircraft exhibition 1918
The Countess of Drogheda, born Kathleen Moore Pelham Burn married the 10th Earl of Drogheda in 1909 and divorced him in 1922 to marry Guillemo Delanda a polo player

Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland by Madame Yevonde
Millicent Fanny Sutherland-Leveson Gower- [n饠 Millicent Fanny St Clair-Erskine], duchess of Sutherland (18671955), society hostess and social reformer

Prominent personalities serving in Gallipoli, WW1
Notable members of society serving in the Dardanelles. Top left is the Marquis of Tullibardine, eldest son and heir of the Duke of Atholl (later the 8th Duke of Atholl 1871-1942)

The Hon. Katherine Norton by Madame Yevonde
The Hon. Katherine Norton, daughter of John Norton, 5th Baron Grantley, who worked as a nurse during the First World War in France. Her only brother, Richard Norton of Scots Grey was badly wounded

Countess Poulett, formerly the actress Sylvia Storey (1889-1947) remembered as a Gibson Girl and for her role of Lady Hamilton in, The Gay Gordons. Married the 7th Earl Poulett in 1908

Miss Honor Dorothy Leigh by Madame Yevonde
Honor Dorothy Leigh (1892-1982), only daughter of Mr John Blundell Leigh of Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire and granddaughter of the Marquess of Abergavenny

Lady Lytton
Pamela Frances Audrey Bulwer-Lytton (n饠 Chichele-Plowden), Countess of Lytton (1873 or 1874-1971), Society beauty; wife of 2nd Earl of Lytton; daughter of Sir Trevor John Chichele-Plowden

Lady Tichborne by Madame Yevonde
Lady Tichborne, formerly Denise Greville, wife of Sir Joseph Tichborne. When she married in 1914, a woman claiming to be a beneficiary of the famous Tichborne money over which there had been a trial

An indefatigable war worker, Elizabeth Asquith
Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith (1897-1945), later Princess Bibesco, English writer, daughter of British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and his second wife, Margot

The impact the war had on upper classes in Hyde Park
A slightly comedic illustration in Hyde Park, showing the effect of WW1 on the upper classes. Shown in rags, the only sign of their class is the style of their clothes with a suggestion that this was

The Hon. Clarissa Tennant
Clarissa Madeleine Georgiana Felicite Tennant (1896-1960), daughter of 1st Baron Glenconner pictured at the time of her engagement to her first husband

The Marchioness of Headfort and her children
The Marchioness of Headfort, formerly known to playgoers as Miss Rose (Rosie) Boote of the Gaiety Theatre, London. She married the Marquess in April 1901, and her son became the Earl of Bective

Lady Diana Somerset
Lady Diana Maud Nina Somerset (12 September 1898 6 May 1935), married 19 September 1925 Captain Lindsey Shedden (18811971). Date: 1918

Lady Petre
Lady Catherine (Kitty) Petre, formerly Catherine Margaret Boscawen, wife of Lionel Goerge Carroll, 16th Baron Petre. The 16th Baron, son of the 15th Baron and Julia Mary Cavendish-Taylor

Lady Diana Manners - a journalist now, 1919
Photographic portrait of Lady Diana Manners (1890-1981), later Lady Diana Cooper, daughter of the Duke of Rutland and later Diana, Viscountess Norwich, the English actress

Countess of Rothes, a nurse at the Coulter Hospital
The Countess of Rothes, formerly Miss Noel Martha Dyer-Edwardes, wife of the 19th Earl who worked at the Coulter Hospital during the First World War

Forty eight hours leave to get married, WW1
The wedding of Baroness Beaumont, elder daughter of Ethel, Lady Beaumont and the Hon. Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, elder son of Lord Howard of Glossop, which took place quietly at St

Lady Percy, WW1
Countess Percy, formerly Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond and later Duchess of Northumberland. She married Earl Percy in 1911. He succeeded to the dukedom in 1918

Loafers in the park - WW1 recruitment cartoon
Wastage! " War? Well, wot abart it?" The stirring carll to arms - " Your King and Country Need You!" - has still failed to reach

Peers of the Realm who had joined up, WW1
Double page spread from The Sketch showing portraits of peers of the realm who had joined up during the early weeks of the First World War

Lord Desborough and youngest son, Ivo
William Henry Grenfell, Lord Desborough driving himself to the traditional Eton Harrow cricket match in July 1914, accompanied by his youngest son, Ivo. Date: 1914

Childrens Jewel Fund Sale of Dolls, WW1
A variety of examples of dolls on sale at Sutherland House in aid of the Childrens Jewel Fund, which raised money for infant welfare centres around the country

Society war-workers, 1918
A page from The Sketch featuring four society ladies involved in war work. Top left is Lady Rosamund Butler, elder daughter of the Earl and Countess of Carrick

Sketch cover, Lady D Abernon as an anaesthetist, WW1
Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring a portrait of Helen Venetia Vincent, Viscountess D Abernon (nÚÑáDuncombe) (18661954), British peeress, socialite and diarist

Lady Herbert Davis-Goff in nursing uniform, WW1
Lady (Herbert) David-Goff of Glenville, Waterford pictured in uniform in 1918, when she was working at the Waterford branch of the Irish War Hospital Supply Depot where all kinds of bandages

Lady Margaret Sackville (1881 - 1963), poet and childrens writer. She was the daughter of the 7th Earl de la Warr. During the First World War Sackville joined the anti-war Union of Democratic Control

Countess of Warwick and her daughter, Mercy
Frances Evelyn Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick (1861 - 1938), society beauty, and mistress to King Edward VII. Pictured with her younger daughter, Lady Mercy Greville dressed entirely in white

Wives of four awarded officers, WW1
Four wives of awarded officers during the First World War. From top left, Lady Sybil Grant, the elder daughter of Lord Rosebery

Lord Graham, 1916
James Graham, 6th Duke of Montrose (1878 1954), Scottish nobleman, politician and engineer, pictured before he succeeded to the Dukedom during the First World War while serving as a commander in

The widowed Lady Levinge
Portrait of Lady Levinge, wife of the late Sir Richard Levinge, formerly of the 8th Hussars and then attached to the 1st Life Guards in which he served until he was killed at Ypres on 24 October 1914

Society ladies as programme sellers at concert, WW1
A group of well known society ladies, dubbed by The Tatler, Some Kindly " Souls" (alluding to their heritage as children or relations of the group of Edwardian intellectuals known as)

Lady Poulett with her children
Countess Poulett, formerly the actress Sylvia Storey (1889-1947) remembered as a Gibson Girl and for her role of Lady Hamilton in, The Gay Gordons

War Economy by A. Wallis Mills, WW1
Lady Sybil de Vere: " Do look at those extraordinary people. Their clothes are quite new!" Sir Hugo: " Rotten bad form

Lady Ingestre and her three daughters
Lady Ingestre, formerly Lady Winifred Paget, widow of the late Lord Ingestre who died in 1915 and was a captain in the Blues, pictured with her three daughters; the Hon

The Call to Alms by Frank Reynolds
She: But, my dear George, you can t possibly mean that you start for the Front on Tuesday! Why on earth didn t you explain to them that its the opening day of the Bazaar

The Patriots by George Belcher, WW1
Three rather shabby, working class women, who probably don t have much choice about how extravagantly they choose to dress

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