Housewifery lessons, London School Board

London School -Board capture, 19thC

A Board School in Edinburgh, Scotland. Wood engraving by [A. S.].

The Board School, Blundell Street, Islington. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin after D. R. Warry, 1873.

A black board with a box of chalks and a board wipe with the chalk message written in French about the AIDS prevention campaign in high schools; advertisement by Mairie de Paris. Colour lithograph.

City of London Freemen's Orphan School, Brixton, London. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1854, after B. Sly.

Leaflets about feeding childres

A young woman being instructed to dance by an older woman, both of them dressed in extreme fashions, while a foreign dancing master accompanies them on the violin. Engraving, 1771.

The Lawrence Asylum, Sanawar, India. Photograph.

Sangareddy, Andhra Pradesh, India: people in hospital. Photograph by F.T. Shipham, ca. 1925.

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The art of soundproof design

The law of periodicity for menstruation

The child whose town rejected vaccines

How architecture builds a profession of stress

Elegant orations, ancient and modern, for the use of schools; originally compiled for the instruction of his own pupils; by the Rev. J. Mossop, Master Of The Boarding-School, Brighthelmstone.

The london vocabulary, English and Latin: Put into a new Method proper to acquaint the Learner with Things, as well as Pure Latin Words. Adorn'd with Twenty Six Pictures. For the use of schools. The third edition. By James Greenwood, Author of the English Grammar, and now keeps a Boarding-School at Woodford in Essex.

Advice to youth; or, the advantages of early piety. Designed for the use of schools, as well as young apprentices and servants, and the British Youth in general: To draw the Attention to Matters of the greatest Importance in Early Life. The third edition, corrected and improved. By John Fawcett, Master of a Boarding-School, at Brearley-Hall, in Midgley, near Halifax.

Advice to youth; or, the advantages of early piety. Designed for the use of schools, as well as young apprentices and servants, and the British Youth in general: To draw the Attention to Matters of the greatest Importance in Early Life. The second edition, corrected and improved. By John Fawcett, Master of a Boarding-School, at Brearley-Hall, in Midgley, near Halifax.

The young ladies miscellany: or, Youth's innocent and rational amusement. To which is prefixed, a short essay on the art of pronunciation, and the great advantage arising from an early practice of it in publick. For the use of schools: but more particularly for the young ladies of Mrs. Bellamy's Boarding-School, at High-Wickham in the county of Bucks.

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How architecture builds a profession of stress

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Elegant orations, ancient and modern, for the use of schools; originally compiled for the instruction of his own pupils; by the Rev. J. Mossop, Master Of The Boarding-School, Brighthelmstone.

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The art of soundproof design

The law of periodicity for menstruation

The child whose town rejected vaccines

How architecture builds a profession of stress

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Elegant orations, ancient and modern, for the use of schools; originally compiled for the instruction of his own pupils; by the Rev. J. Mossop, Master Of The Boarding-School, Brighthelmstone.