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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Aristotle tutoring the young Alexander the Great. Alexander's father, Philip II, King of Macedon, hired the respected Greek philosopher to educate his son. Alexander III of Macedon, known as Alexander the Great, 356 BC - 323 BC. Aristotle, 384 BC - 322 BC. After a 19th century wood engraving; Artwork

© Ken Welsh

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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