Lectures Gallery

Scenes from Malvern Camp, 1938

Photograph, one of an album of 73, compiled by Chief Commander Blanche Barton, Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1938-1945.Photographs show scenes from Malvern Camp, 1938, including: groups, inspections, erecting tents, portraits, marching, pay day, lectures, first aid training, gas mask drill, kit inspection.Photographs also show scenes from Lancaster, 1939, including: inspection by Queen Elizabeth, issuing kit, instruction in cookery, pay day, visit of Princess Royal, wedding.With photographs of a march through Colwyn Bay. Date: 1938

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library

Letter from Lt. Colonel Richardson, dog trainer

Letter from the renowned dog trainers Lt. Colonel Edwin Hautenville Richardson to the Royal Society of Arts, confirming that he would give a lecture for them on the subject of dogs in peace and war. He also makes suggestions about other talks he gave. Richardson was well known for providing guard, sentry and police dogs and lobbied for dogs to be used more widely at the front during the First World War in line with other countries. Eventually, he was asked to set up the British War Dog School at Shoeburyness (later it moved to Lyndhurst in the New Forest) where hundreds of dogs were trained to act as ambulance, sentry and, in particular, messenger dogs with great success. Date: 1924

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Floral leaves bractea of the purple top'd clary

Floral leaves bractea of the purple top'd clary Salvia viridis and lime Tilia tomentosa. . Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis's Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth, 1805. Edwards (1768-1819) was the artist of thousands of botanical plates for Curtis' Botanical Magazine and his own Botanical Register.

© Florilegius / Mary Evans