Images Dated 6th June 2019

Plan of a garden for a stately home, 1821

Plan of a garden for a stately home, 1821. With house, offices, stables, kitchen garden, conservatory, kitchen yard, stable yard, melon ground, flower garden, rosiary, and entrance gate. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts, London, 1821

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Title page, Histoire de l'Isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue

Title page, Histoire de l'Isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue [History of the Spanish Island or of San Domingo], based on the memoirs of Jean-Baptiste le Pers, Jesuit priest and missionary, and the writings of Pierre-Francois-Xavier de Charlevoix, Jesuit priest. Volume Two. The island, also known as Hispaniola, is now divided into two separate nations: Haiti to the west (French Creole-speaking), and the Dominican Republic to the east (Spanish-speaking). Date: 1731

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Beauty, brains and breeding 1919

Photographs of society women in 1919, (left to right): Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm (1895 -1969), Lady Loughborough, Australian born wife of Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough. Mrs Troubridge, the wife of Vice-Admiral Troubridge, C.B. Lady Lovat, a beautiful Scottish peeress, whose husband raised the Lovat's Scouts during the Boer War. Rosita Forbes (1893 - 1967) British traveller and author. Date: 1919

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