Womens Collection (page 13)

Selection of womens brimmed hats. Date: 1916

Lady footballers, the South Team, 1895
The determined-looking ladies of the South football team who played the North team at the in the opening match of the British Ladies Football Club at Nightingale Lane ground at Crouch End in March

Tatler cover 1939 - Alice Marble & Jean Nicoll
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of American, shorts-wearing Alice Marble shaking hands at the net with sixteen year-old British tennis player

The Orientalism of the European Woman, 1913
The Orientalism of the European Woman: Ladies of the West Adopt the Yashmak-Veil just as the Ladies of the East are abandoning it

W. V. S. Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency oven
A W.V.S. (Womens Voluntary Service) Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency oven out of bricks, a piece of metal plate and a broken piece of drainpipe. Date: circa 1941

German womens fashion from the late 15th century
German womens fashion and ornament from the late 15th century. Woman from the title page to the woodcut album Reise von Palastina A

German womens costumes of the late 15th century. In dress adorned with gold on the collar and sleeves. From a painting in the collection of Katharina Sattler, Mainburg Castle

Knightly costume of the 15th century. Knight in armour with helm, shield, pennant, spurs and cracows, on horseback. From an illuminated manuscript of Konrad von Ammenhausens Schachzabelbuch

French womens costumes of the 15th century. Poetess Christine de Pizan writing in her room A, women in hennin headdresses B, D, and woman in tall headdress hawking on horseback C

French breastplate armour and spur worn of the 15th century
French breastplate armour and spur worn by Duke Albrecht III of Bavaria of the 15th century. Panzerjacke, sporn. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes

Womens headdresses from the mid-15th century. Top maiden from St. Martins Church, Oberwesel, and bottom woman from the Basilica of St. Cunibert, Cologne

Womens costumes of the mid 15th century. From the Duke of Saxonys friendship book in Dresden State Archive. Stammbuches. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes

Italian womens costumes from the mid 15th century. From a fresco by Pinturicchio in the church of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, Rome

Iris, Iris gemanica, and sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Charles Malos Guirlande de Flore, Garland of Flowers

Woman in grey taffeta dress with linen collar and cuffs, satin gilet with enamel buttons, under a willow tree. Robe de taffetas gris a col et manchettes de linon, et gilet de satin a boutons d email

Womens gloves in suede and kid skin, 1913
Womens gloves in suede and kid skin. Gants de suede et de chevreau glace. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching from Tommaso Antonginis Journal des Dames et des Modes

Womens hat designs by milliner Marcelle Demay, 1913
Womens hat designs by milliner Marcelle Demay. Modeles de Marcelle Demay. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by B

Young womens dresses, 1913
Young womens dresses: one in white crepon and orange taffeta, the other in embroidered white fabric. Robes de jeunes filles: l une en crepon blanc et taffetas orange, l autre en drap blanc brode

The New Gallant. A member of the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps offers her seat to a smartly-dressed civilian woman on a train during the First World War, saying " Take my seat, madam"

Preslands Ladies Hairdressing Salon, Darlington Preslands Ladies Hairdressing
Preslands Ladies Hairdressing Salon, Darlington. 1925

A negligee of Eastern inspiration by Lucile
A romantic and exotic creation, reminiscent of the Orient, by the dress designer, Lucile, aka Lady Lucy Duff Gordon. Date: 1920

English and American netball teams at the Alhambra
The English and American teams of ladies that play " net-ball" at the Alhambra in 1900. Date: 1900

Beach and yachting suits from Galeries Lafayette
Beach and nautical outfits at the height of their popularity. On the left, a beach suit of silk printed to suggest cretonne, worn with a jumper (sleeveless top) of white stockinette

Evening pyjama suit by Worth
An extremely glamorous pyjama du soir in black crepe with full, deceptive skirt front, and short wide-sleeved coat with black fox collar by Worth. Date: 1931

Tailored coat and dress by Jean Patou, 1931
A tailored coat and dress for " a summers rainy day in town". With slightly flared skirt and belted, it fastens on one side to leave a loose draping end. Very smart and chic. Date: 1931

Evening dress by Worth, 1931
Two views of an evening dress by Worth in beige and deep chestnut satin worn with sandals. Date: 1931

Summer suit by Molyneux
Black crepe de chine faced with white for a summer suit by Edward Molyneux. Worn with a white, belted blouse it is trimmed with an edging of tiny flowers cut out of the same material. Date: 1931

Beach and garden suits from Liberty, 1931
On the left, a pyjama suit of Japanese silk enriched with stencilling and on the right, a three-piece outfit also in Japanese silk. Date: 1931

Harrods hats for 1929
Lovely advertisement for Parisian hats by Agnes, Lydia, Reboux and Alphonsine available from Harrods in the autumn of 1929. Date: 1929

Group of women at a meeting
A group of women at a meeting. circa 1950s

WaF officer uniform from Moss Bros 1940
Advertisement for Moss Bros during the Second World War, and their regulation uniform. A photograph of a woman modelling an officers uniform in blue barathea cloth for the Womens Auxiliary Air Force

Advert for Hershelle clothing 1940
Advertisement for Hershelle womens clothing showing a woman in Yardleys of Bond Street seemingly so engrossed in the shops catalogue

The Jugglers by Averil Burleigh
The Jugglers: A Study in Modernity, by Averil Burleigh (1883 - 1949). Exhibited at the Society of Women Artists in 1929. Date: 1929

Statue in Square des Epinettes, Paris, France
Statue to Maria Deraismes (1828-1894), champion of womens rights, writer, reformer and philosopher, in the Square des Epinettes, Paris, France. Date: 1900s

Statue to Maria Deraismes, Square Epinettes, Paris, France
Statue to Maria Deraismes (1828-1894), champion of womens rights, writer, reformer and philosopher, in the Square des Epinettes, Paris, France. Date: 1900s

Afternoon tea in garden of Pioneer Club, London
Afternoon tea in the garden of the Pioneer Club - The Ladies Clubs of London. 1899

Member of the Womens Land Army in uniform, September 1939
Jean Jacobs, formerly a London shop assistant, photographed in her Land Army uniform as she receives her training in Sussex. Date: 1939

Gwyneth Thomson and Helena Normanton
Two of our coming Portias. Mrs. Gwyneth Marjory Thomson, accepted by the Benchers of Lincolns Inn as a student in 1920. On the right, Miss Helena Normanton

Women queueing for Auxiliary Air Force posts, September 1939
Women in London queueing for posts in the Womens Auxiliary Air Force, a few weeks after the outbreak of war. The WaF was founded by the King in June 1939

Womens Land Army volunteers in training, September 1939
Volunteers for the Womens Land Army learning basic agricultural skills, courtesy of the East Sussex Agricultural College. The Sphere comments on the health benefits of country life. 1939

First female member of Parliament, Anna Rogstad, April 1911
Front cover of the Sphere showing Anna Rogstad the first female member of Parliament in the world as she takes her place in the Nowegian Storting

Sports outfit by Suzanne Talbot, 1930
A sports outfit by Suzanne Talbot showing the nipped-in waist sported by the gaily-striped sweater which matches the wider-brimmed hat

Travellers Joys, the right clothes for the journey, 1950
Travellers Joys: the Right Clothes for the Journey. Talking to driver F.W. Page, who leans from the cab of a West of England express, the girl on the left is wearing Jaegers pure camel hair top coat

Janet Hogarth at Encyclopedia Britannica dinner 1910
Janet Hogarth speaking at an Encyclopedia Britannica dinner held to celebrate the contribution of women to the recent completion of the eleventh edition

Christabel Pankhurst (1880 - 1958), British suffragette, in Montmartre, Paris, after being forced to leave London for fear of arrest

Underground passage to the House of Commons 1908
The underground passage from Westminster Station to the House of Commons, a section of which was privatised for MPs, usually used in bad weather but increasingly as a way of avoiding suffragettes

Suffragists putting up posters in London 1908
Two women putting up a posters in London. The Womens Freedom League encouraged its members to plaster buildings with posters demanding votes for women as a form of passive protest

Christabel Pankhurst defending herself in court 1908
Christabel Pankhurst shown defending the " rush" on the House of Commons and her role in it at Bow Street Magistrates Court, London

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