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Masters of Malvern College
Illustration by Fred May showing the Headmaster of Malvern College, Mr Frank S. Preston, taking a roll-call of some of his staff. Malvern College is an independent school in Worcestershire, England

NADIA-JULIETTE BOULANGER, French music teacher
NADIA-JULIETTE BOULANGER (1887-1979), French music teacher and conductor. Her students included Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Lennox Berkeley, Virgil Thomson and Leonard Bernstein. Date: early 1960s

Margaret Morris (1891 - 1980), British dancer, choreographer and teacher. Photographs showing her in various poses during her dance as a tree spirit

Wroxton Abbey is a modernised, 17th century Jacobean manor house built on the foundations of a 13th century Augustinian priory

University of Oxford. College of the University and Queens College. Illustration in Vues d Optique (Perspective Views). Images to be seen through a zograscope

Widener Library at Harvard University, USA
Widener Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Date: 1915

German Student Duel / 1880
A German students duel at Gottingen. The Mensur, as practised by German fraternities, is a fast yet rarely-lethal affair with cuts accepted as marks of honour

Female Medical Students
Under the watchful eye of the House Physician, a group of female medical students, trainee doctors, examine a patient at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London

Horse-Drawn Narrow Boat
A horse on the tow path of the Oxford Canal at Napton, Warwickshire, England. It is pulling a narrow pleasure boat full of holidaying students. Date: early 1960s

Padua University Facade
The facade of Padua University

Bristol Uni Students
Women students at Bristol University reading in the library

Edinburgh Uni Studying
Students at Edinburgh University, apparently studying science, read and make notes in a library

King Bhumibol Adulyadej and future Queen Sirikit
King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) (1927-) and future Queen Sirikit (1932-) whilst still students in Lausanne, Switzerland. Date: 1949

OUDS: The Tempest at Worcester College, 1949
A midsummer diversion in an Oxford garden: the Oxford University Drama Societys production of Shakespeares The Tempest in the grounds of Worcester College, 1949

Scene in a lecture theatre, with chemical equations written on the blackboard, a woman giving a lecture, and students taking notes. circa 1940s

Warwick Univ Students
Students relaxing in the Common Room at Warwick University. Date: early 1970s

Kings College students on buses
Kings College students in high spirits, on two buses which are about to leave the Strand campus for Wormwood Scrubs (an open space in west London, not the prison!) for a football match

Cambridge Uni Girton Lib
Cambridge: Girton College Stanley Library Date: 1913

St Andrews University
Women students at St Andrews University reading books and making notes in the library

Furniture Exhibition
Poster for an Exhibition of Textiles and Furniture designed by students of Bradford School of Arts & Crafts (1 of 2)

Operation / Paris
Eminent surgeon Dr Doyen performs an operation at the Maison de Sante, Paris, watched by students and colleagues

Operation / Charing X
An operation at Charing Cross Hospital, London, watched by students and colleagues

Durham Univ Exam 1842
Examination of the students of the University of Durham

Chemistry Laboratory at Eton College, Berkshire
Boys being taught in the Chemistry Laboratory at Eton College, Berkshire. Date: circa 1905

Students Memorial - University College, Bangor, Wales - completed in 1923 to honour all the people from North Wales who had been killed in the First World War. Date: circa 1924

Ladies of the Land - Society Workers on a model farm, WW1
A model farm at West Malvern where girls of the higher social classes are trained in the practical work and theory of dairying, including cheese-making, poultry culture, goat-keeping, and so

Two females handstands on beam

Margery Fry and students
Margery Fry (1874 - 1958), Principal of Somerville College, Oxford from 1926 to 1930, governor of the BBC from 1937 to 1939, and brother of the artist Roger Fry, at a reception given at County Hall

An operation screened live in a medical lecture
An invention by Mr Herbert A. Silver enabling medical students to watch surgery from the lecture theatre. A circle of electric lamps is suspended over the operating table while the image is projected

Students in Biergarten
German students enjoy a jocular session in a biergarten, joking with the waitress and emptying a few steins

School for Butlers
Trainee butlers take notes as their teacher points to a blackboard diagram, explaining the correct way to carve lamb

Military Education / Japan
Military education in Japanese primary schools A Naval officer presents a model of a warship to students

Chemistry students, Leeds University

Heidelberg Univ 1870
Heidelberg university students, members of the Allemana society

Piccadilly Hippies
Young people enjoying the sunshine at Piccadilly Circus under Eros

Girton College Lecture
A lecture at Girton College, Cambridge, a women-only college until 1977: the students concentrate and prepare to take notes

Students of the Empire Test Pilots? School during a vis?
Students of the Empire Test Pilots? School during a visit to Rotol Ltd, Gloucester. Capt N.F. Harrison, DSO, SaF, extreme right; and H. Read, Rotol Instruction School, in civilian dress

Oxford Eights on the River Thames Victorian period

International House, Chicago
International House, 141 East 59th Street, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA dedicated 1932. A residential center for foreign and American students. Donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr

Tsar Nicholas II and the Tsarevich Alexei, School at Bakhmut
Russia - Tsar Nicholas II and the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich reviewing the children of the popular school Venus in Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine. Date: circa 1913

A large group of young boys at a military school - Lacrosse
A large group of young boys at a military school (?), posing in their sports kit with lacrosse sticks. Date: circa 1910s

Music cover, Cap and Gown Lancers, on airs from the Scottish Students Song Book, by Margaret Canmore, with views of Aberdeen, St Andrew's, Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities Date: 19th century

Opera, costumed music students, Royal College of Music
Opera, music students, Royal College of Music. Theatrical portrait of 6 students in costume, captioned Group of Mr Visetti's pupils in Le Roi L'a Dit'

Professor Harrison Moore
A portrait oil painting of Australian lawyer and academic professor at the University of Melbourne, Sir William Harrison Moore

Advertisement for Shaftesbury Homes
An advertisement for The Shaftesbury Homes and Arethusa Training Ship. Announcing the acquisition of Esher Place, the location of a girl's school

Caricature illustrations of students, staff and academics at Cambridge University by H M Bateman. Captioned, Cantabs in Caricature'

Robin Darwin (1910-1974), principal of the Royal College of Art, with students. Also pictured are faculty members Madge Garland (1898-1990)

Ten Jolly English male students go camping (2/2)
Ten Jolly English male students have fun during their summer holidays by heading off on a jaunt camping in the countryside. Lots of fun is being had, possibly fuelled by a few beverages

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