Recreational Gallery

Undergraduate female student tea party, December 1920

Female undergraduates at Somerville College, Oxford, enjoying a tea party hosted in the living quarters of one of the students. Somerville College was founded in 1879 and named after Mrs Mary Somerville, a Scottish mathematician and physicist. It was Oxford's first non-denominational college and admitted only women. This image is part of a wider article on female recreational activities at University. Date: 1920

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

U. S. O. Club operated by the Salvation Army - WWII

U. S. O. Club operated by the Salvation Army - the United Services Organization Inc. a private, non-profit organization that provides morale and recreational services to members of the U.S. military. Began a tradition of entertaining the troops during World War Two as pictured on this postcard. The Salvation Army were one of the six civilian organizations brought together under one umbrella to support U.S. troops. Date: 1942

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Boating Tea Break

A jolly young woman, wearing a beret, offers a cup and saucer of tea from the deck of her moored boat to another young woman wearing a box pleated skirt beside a tree trunk! Date: 1930s

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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