Suit Collection (page 8)

Shelter in comfort
Advert for Debenham and Freebody Department Store, promoting the latest fashion in air raid suits and coats. Date: 1940

Advert for Walpoles
Walpoles, advertising Autumn 1939's must-have outfit: an all-in-one air-raid shelter suit, with pockets large enough to accommodate gas-mask, torch and make-up. Available in Air Force blue

Advert for Aquascutum
Advert for a woman's tweed suit, from Aquascutum's autumn collection. Date: 1939

Autumn fashion from Matita
Showcasing part of the autumn collection from Matita. Checks were in. Date: 1939

Advert for Slixsilver swimsuits. The one pictured is made of silver oilsilk. Date: 1939

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) the American actress, wearing what was viewed at the time as relatively masculine clothing. Date: 1939

Sunday Wilshin, actress (1906-1991) studio fashion portrait. With description, Miss Sunday Wilshin, who is at present engaged in making a new film at Ealing

Norman McKinnel, actor, (1870-1932) drawn from life by R G Mathews, artist (1870-1955). Pencil sketch in suit and waistcoat, smoking a cigarette

Summer fashion ideas for women: a plage suit with a lozenge-patterned jerkin, and two swimsuits. Date: 1954

A selection of fashionable outfits for women. Date: 1954

A sketch of a woman in a fashionable tweed suit, accessorised with hat, scarf and handbag. This sort of outfit was popular for wearing in the country, or for mornings in town. Date: circa 1932

Man seated on the floor in a Japanese house with a Bonsai tree Date: circa 1900

Boy church bell ringers, young campanologists Date: circa 1890s

Fashion item, inexpensive women's fashions, WW2 Date: 1942

A Donkey Ride on the Beach Date: 1907

Snowbirds by Philip Boileau (1863-1917) - two pretty young ladies in matching sailor suits and dark bonnet-style hats. His illustrations of dignified women became a part of popular culture

Types ofantique armour
Types of antique armour - 1. roundel (shield), 2. target, 3. lead mallet used by archers, 4. iron mace used by cavalry, 5. black bill in armoury of Canterbury Town Hall, 6

RAF Wing Commander Douglas Bader, WW2
Royal Air Force Wing Commander Douglas Bader, Second World War. Date: 1942

The Giant Machnow at The London Hippodrome
Fedor Machnow (said to be 9 ft 8 ins high in 1905) was born in 1876 near Viciebsk, then part of the Russian Empire (now in Belarus). He is seen here outside the London Hippodrome

Sir Edmund Gosse, English poet, author and critic, by Imre Laszlo Unvardy aka Spy Junr Date: 1927

Diver at work in sea diving suit Date: 1880

A A Milne, English author, by Imre Laszlo Unvardy aka Spy Junr Date: 1927

A E W Mason, English author and politician, by Imre Laszlo Unvardy aka Spy Junr Date: 1927

Queen Victoria with her four great-grandchildren 1900
Queen Victoria with her four great-grandchildren taken at Osborne House, eldest standing next to Victoria, Prince David, future Edward VIII for one year in 1936 and then Duke of Windsor (1894 - 1972)

Fantastic Adventures - Death plays a game
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1941, featuring the story Death plays a game by David V. Reed. A alien is holding a futuristic gun which is directed at a blue suited terrified looking man

Communist Communism Left Wing Daily Worker Newspaper
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A page of adverts from - February 1954
Three fashion adverts for women's permanent hair styles at Vasco's Hair Bubbles, tailored lingerie at and Supalese early spring tailored suits at Swan & Edgar. Date: 1954

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Un vago es un faccioso (A lazy is a factious). Poster edited by the Departament of Public Order of Aragon

TARRADELLAS I JOAN, Josep (1899-1988). Catalan politician, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya in exile (1954-1977) and provisionally until 1980. Spain. Civil War

Londoners sleeping in the Underground during the Blitz
German bombing campaign against Britain between September 1940 and May 1941 mainly targeting London and industrial places

Three travelling vanity cases made of crocodile and Morocco leather. Date: 1907

Laurence Olivier and Dorothy Tutin
Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) and Dorothy Tutin (1930-2001), British actors, during rehearsals for John Osborne's play The Entertainer. Date: 10 April 1957

Signing a contract at Simpsons of Piccadilly, London
A group of men signing a contract at Simpsons of Piccadilly, a large retail shop in Central London selling quality clothing for men which opened in 1936. Date: mid 20th century

Arnold Nixon Shimmin, economist
Arnold Nixon Shimmin (1889-1961), economist, member of the National Arbitration Tribunal. Date: circa 1950s

Sheila Scott, English record-breaking aviator
Sheila Scott (Sheila Christine Hopkins, 1922-1988), English aviator who broke over 100 aviation records through her long distance flights

Gould Bryan Brian Charles 1939 Uk Labour Socialist
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Sir Alec Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister
Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, 1903-1995), Conservative politician and British Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964

Scargill Arthur Sitting Audience Conference 1938
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Arthur Scargill, miners leader and trade unionist
Arthur Scargill (b 1938), miners leader and trade unionist. Seen here sitting in a deckchair at a seaside resort, probably during a conference. Date: circa 1980s

Hugh Scanlon, British trade union leader
Hugh Parr Scanlon, Baron Scanlon (1913-2004), British trade union leader. Seen here giving a speech at a conference. Barbara Castle can be seen in the background on the left. Date: circa 1970s

Christopher Soames, British Conservative politician
Christopher Soames (Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, 1920-1987), British Conservative politician, government minister, European Commissioner and Leader of the House of Lords

Michael Stewart, British Foreign Secretary
Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham (1906-1990), British Labour politician, Fabian Socialist and government minister

Lying in state of Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav statesman
Scene at the lying in state of Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980), Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman, Prime Minister of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)

Ron Todd, General Secretary of the TGWU
Ron (Ronald) Todd (1927-2005), General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) from 1985 to 1992. Seen here (left) with a colleague at a conference

Keith Vaz and Bill Morris at a meeting
Keith Vaz (Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz, b 1956), British Labour Party politician (left) and Bill Morris (William Manuel Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth, b 1938), leader of the TGWU

Brian Walden, TV journalist and former Labour politician
Brian Walden (b 1932), television journalist and broadcaster, and former Labour politician. Seen here on Westminster Bridge, London, with the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben in the background

Caspar Weinberger, American Republican politician
Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger (1917-2006), American Republican politician and vice president. He served as US Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1987

Willie Whitelaw, Conservative politician and minister
Willie Whitelaw (William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, 1918-1999), Conservative politician and government minister. Date: circa 1980s

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