Teachers Gallery

Margaret Morris (1891 - 1980), British dancer, choreographer and teacher

Margaret Morris (1891 - 1980), British dancer, choreographer and teacher. Photograph s showing her in various poses during her dance as a tree spirit, typical of the Isadora Duncan technique that she advocated. Morris founded the co-educational Margaret Morris School which taught dancing, painting and music and the Sketch advertises the "Children's Season", performances by her students lasting four weeks. Date: 1921

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Women's 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 Women's League of Health and Beauty for the first peace-time rally in Regents Park. Her husband, Sir David, was killed during the Second World War with the RAF, after which she devoted more of her time to the league which had been founded by her mother, Mary Bagot Stack, in 1930 to provide evening exercise classes business girls and working women could afford. Date: 1946

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Pupils from Fretherne House School, 1903

Group photograph of pupils at Fretherne House School, a preparatory school based in Welwyn Garden City up until in the Second World War. Pupils pose with a number of teachers - the boys are dressed in clothes typical of the era including sailor suits and Norfolk jackets. Kneeling far left second row is Cuthbert Gasemann, whose album this photograph came from. Date: 1903

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