Learning Collection (page 6)

Scholarly Monks
The monastic establishments were virtually the only repositories of learning during the Middle Ages. Date: medieval

Flying kites
Young boy and girl in a field with an older sister learning to fly their kites. Artist: Enid Warne Browne Date: circa 1922

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - Allegheny County Court House, Cathedral of Learning (university of Pittsburgh) and the Koppers and Gulf Buildings - all viewed at night Date: 1937

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - Birds Eye view looking east from Cathedral of Learning, showing the Mellon Institute and Schenley District. Date: 1937

John Hassall Correspondence Art School in St. Albans
The very picturesque John Hassall Correspondence Art School, a successful venture by one of the leading illustrators and poster artists of the day

John Hassall Correspondence Art School - the Poster Course
A man up a ladder posts a poster; illustration accompanying a section in the John Hassall Correspondence Art School brochure explaining about its poster course

John Hassall Correspondence Art School brochure
Front cover of a brochure for The John Hassall Correspondence Art School. Hassall was a leading illustrator and poster artist who established an art school in Kensington in the 1900s

Wrens learning to salute, 1940
Probationary officers of the W.R.N.S. learn to salute, drilling in front of the Royal Naval College in Greenwich. Date: 1940

Wrens probationary officers at a lecture, 1940
Probationary officers of the W.R.N.S. at a lecture at Greenwich Training College, 1940. Date: 1940

Girls singing or reciting in school, c. 1800
Girls singing or reciting in school or Sunday school, with a teacher, c.1800 Date: C.1800

Rural schoolroom, c. 1790s
Children on a bench in a rural schoolroom. Caps hung up on hooks. Date: C.1800s

French police training
Learning to distinguish facial characteristics of possible suspects at the Paris Prefecture Date: 1899

The New University - Cathays Park, Cardiff, South Wales Date: 1917

Advertisement for the Press Art School. run by art critic and writer, Percy Bradshaw. The correspondence course was recommended as a way to gain new skills for employment

Receipt, Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, Redhill, Surrey
Receipt from the Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, Redhill, Surrey, dated 6 June 1889, confirming one years subscription of one guinea from Mrs R Blake Byass, signed by James Downing, Secretary

Prince Projatipok of Siam at Murren
Prince Pojatipok, heir to the Siamese throne, learning to ice skate at society ski resort, Murren in the Swiss Alps. The Tatler reports that

Madame Karina and Dancing School Pupils - Karina was a Russian Ballet dancer at the Royal Opera House, and founder of the school of dance at 123 ladbroke Grove under the patronage of Queen Alexandra

Five kittens on a greetings card, trying to learn a lesson. Date: circa 1890s

Three cats with globe on a greetings card
Three cats with books and globe on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Three Japanese archery students
Three Japanese students are holding bows and arrows, one is standing preparing to shoot. The rest of the students are seated behind. Date: 1932

Three trainee Japanese pilots
Three Japanese women are being trained as pilotos by a man. One is seated and the other two stand, they all dressed in pilot attire and are looking at the demonstration. Date: 1932

Two young riders, Cloutsham Farm, Exmoor, Devon
Two young riders at Cloutsham Farm, Exmoor, Devon, practising their horseback skills and watching the Devon and Somerset Hunt in the distance. Date: 1926

National Childrens Home (NCH), Bethnal Green - Working Lads
National Childrens Home (NCH), Bethnal Green. A group of Working Lads hold some of the tools of the trades they have been learning. Date: circa 1900

Poster, youth club photography opportunity
Poster advertising a youth club photography opportunity. Six members invited to take photos, develop and print them, all equipment provided. Date: circa 1960s

The dancing lesson, Les Images en Musique
Cats taking part in a dancing lesson in a park, illustration in Les Images en Musique, with illustrations by Benjamin Rabier and easy pieces for piano by Jane Vieu. Date: 1908

Womens Emergency Corps making toys, WW1
Members of the Womens Emergency Corps learning to make toys in September 1914. Before the war, Germany was the main exporter of toys to Britain but a number of voluntary organisations

Women gunnery opticians, Illustrated War News, WW1
Women gunnery " opticians". Learning gun-sight lens making at Northampton Institute during the First World War. Date: 1917

Soldiers & sailors blinded in war learning useful trades
Patients at the Blind Soldiers and Sailors Hostel of St Dunstan in Regents Park being taught new skills to equip them for life

Oxford University under arms, instruction in knot tying
Members of the Officers Training Corps at Oxford University pictured being instructed in knot tying in 1915. Date: 1915

Comparison of adjectives, learning for children
Comparison of adjectives to help children learn. Wet, wetter, wettest. Short, shorter, shortest. Etc. Date: 1930s

Children playing schools, with a teacher writing sums up on a blackboard. Date: circa 1930s

Alphabet story, learning ABC
Alphabet story. A was an apple pie, B bit it, C cut it... XYZ all had a piece of it and went off to bed. A delightful picture story to help children learn their ABC. Date: 1930s

A child pretending he is a musician. Illustration published in Harpers Magazine. Engraving

LOUIS IX, Saint Louis, of France (1214-1270). King of France (1226-1270). Depicting the kings life. Gothic art. Miniature Painting

Selkup children, North Siberia (Northern minority). Children playing with elk skin, near river Taz, North Tumen region, Russia

Bottlenose Dolphin - Baby / Calf dolphin being nudged to surface by mother. (Tursiops truncatus). Just after birth the mother will control the babys breath by pushing it under the water or

Bottlenose DOLPHIN - Mother and baby play with air bubble (Tursiops truncatus). Complex play / creative behaviour: dolphins often play with the bubbles or rings of air they create

North London School of Drawing & Modelling, Camden Town
North London School of Drawing and Modelling, Camden Town. The school, states the Illustrated London News, may be considered a model school for the education of art-workmen

Highlanders practising bayonet work at base, WW1
Soldiers in a highland regiment learning how to use bayonets on dummies which swing from a cross-beam. Date: 1918

Staff and trainees of first Part II course, British Honduras
Staff and trainees of the first Part II scouting course, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America. Date: 1967

Dutch sea scouts at the wheel, Holland
A group of six Dutch sea scouts at the wheel of a ship, with their leader standing behind them, Holland. Date: 1972

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

Woman motor driver teaching soldier to drive, WW1
A new driver in the Army Motor Transport section being taught to steer by a female instructor during the First World War. A school to teach women driving and car mechanics was established by the Hon

Women at a car mechanics class, WW1
Women at a school in London established by Gabrielle Borthwick (daughter of the late Baron Borthwick) where driving and mechanics were taught 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

Students at a school for women chemists, WW1
Women at a London County Council school in Hammersmith, training in chemistry following the acceptance of women dispensers by the Army medical authorities during the First World War

Dutch sea scouts with leader, Holland
Two Dutch sea scouts with their leader, Holland, learning the ropes. Date: 1972

Learning farming at St Dunstan s
Two blind servicemen are taught how to put up a wire fence, during their training in farming skills, part of the rehabilitation offered at St Dunstans, Regents Park, London

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