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Prunella Collection

Background imagePrunella Collection: The Womens League of Health & Beauty exercise classes, 1938

The Womens League of Health & Beauty exercise classes, 1938
Health and beauty-a morning exercise class at Harrington Road, London, as conducted by Helen Stack(cousin of Prunella Stack)for the Womens League of Health and Beauty

Background imagePrunella Collection: Womens League of Health & Beauty

Womens League of Health & Beauty
Page from The Sketch reporting on the Womens League of Health and Beauty, who were in the midst of preparing for a big display at the Royal Albert Hall in 1934

Background imagePrunella Collection: Womens League of Health and Beauty, Prunella Stack

Womens League of Health and Beauty, Prunella Stack
Lady David Douglas-Hamilton, formerly Prunella Stack, with some of her students and teachers at the rehearsal of the Womens League of Health and Beauty for the first peace-time rally in Regents Park

Background imagePrunella Collection: The Christening of Diarmaid Douglas-Hamilton

The Christening of Diarmaid Douglas-Hamilton
Diarmaid Douglas-Hamilton (b. 1940) being christened, with his parents Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1912-1944) and Lady Douglas-Hamilton (1914-2010) also known as Prunella Stack. Also present is Rev

Background imagePrunella Collection: Members of British Equity campaigning with banner

Members of British Equity campaigning with banner
Members of British Equity campaigning with a banner outside the Spanish Embassy in London, 4 August 1978. They include (left to right) John Barron (union President), Robert Morley, Paul Eddington

Background imagePrunella Collection: Michaelmas daisy, Aster amellus, and self-heal

Michaelmas daisy, Aster amellus, and self-heal, Prunella vulgaris. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Background imagePrunella Collection: Siphonophorae hydrozoa: Porpema prunella and Porpita species

Siphonophorae hydrozoa: Porpema prunella and Porpita species, young and adult colonies, gas bladder, etc. Chromolithograph by Adolf Glitsch from an illustration by Ernst Haeckel from Art Forms in

Background imagePrunella Collection: League of Health & Beauty class at Ministry of Health

League of Health & Beauty class at Ministry of Health
An exercise class of members of the League of Health and Beauty, comprising staff at the Ministry of Health in Whitehall. They were allowed to use one of the conference rooms for an out of hours

Background imagePrunella Collection: League of Health & Beauty demonstration in Hyde Park

League of Health & Beauty demonstration in Hyde Park
Page from The Sketch reporting on the fourth annual demonstration in Hyde Park by the Womens League of Health and Beauty, led by Prunella Stack, whose mother, Mary Bagot Stack

Background imagePrunella Collection: Sketch cover - Prunella Stack (Lady Douglas Hamilton)

Sketch cover - Prunella Stack (Lady Douglas Hamilton)
Ann Prunella Stack OBE (1915-2011), President of the Womens League of Health and Beauty, founded by her mother Mrs Bagot Stack pictured when she was Lady David Douglas-Hamilton with her baby son

Background imagePrunella Collection: Prunella Stack demonstrating exercises

Prunella Stack demonstrating exercises
Prunella Stack - Leader of The Womens League of Health & Beauty, The mortimer Halls, 43 Great Portland Street, W1, London - Aim of the League was

Background imagePrunella Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 202

Curtis British Entomology Plate 202
Neuroptera: Hemerobius fimbriatus (Hemerobiidae: Bordered Brown Lacewing), = Megalomus hirtus (Linn.). [Plant: Prunella vulgaris (Self-heal)] Date: 1824-39

Background imagePrunella Collection: Prunella Stack, Lady Douglas-Hamilton

Prunella Stack, Lady Douglas-Hamilton
Ann Prunella Stack (1915-2011), who achieved fame as the President of the Womens League of Health and Beauty, taking a health and beauty class in London. 1940

Background imagePrunella Collection: Prunella Stack & the Womens League of Health & Beauty

Prunella Stack & the Womens League of Health & Beauty
Ann Prunella Stack OBE (1915-2011), President of the Womens League of Health and Beauty, founded by her mother Mrs Bagot Stack

Background imagePrunella Collection: Prunella Stack - Leader of Womens League of Health & Beauty

Prunella Stack - Leader of Womens League of Health & Beauty
Prunella Stack - Leader of The Womens League of Health & Beauty, The mortimer Halls, 43 Great Portland Street, W1, London - Aim of the League was

Background imagePrunella Collection: Common nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos

Common nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos, and Alpine accentor, Prunella collaris.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology

Background imagePrunella Collection: Hedge warbler or dunnock, Prunella modularis

Hedge warbler or dunnock, Prunella modularis.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Background imagePrunella Collection: Prunella Stack

Prunella Stack
Ann Prunella Stack OBE (1915-2011), President of the Womens League of Health and Beauty, founded by her mother Mrs Bagot Stack

Background imagePrunella Collection: Prunella Stack maniuplating Herbert Barkers legs, 1939

Prunella Stack maniuplating Herbert Barkers legs, 1939
Lady David Douglas-Hamilton(nee Prunella Stacks) meets Sir Herbert Barker(1869-1950), manipulative surgeon. Following treatment of her husband by Barker for a slight spinal injury


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