Visual Arts
Tailors and Family History
A plethora of tailors and dressmakers in our own family trees made us stop and think about the role of the tailor in the community and how they went about their everyday work and we will get to that but first Many in our families were tailors in Hampshire between Portsmouth and Hambledon. It just…
Read MoreAnna Maria Garthwaite – a remarkable woman
Silk, Anna Maria Garthwaite and a beautiful story to inspire women today
Read MoreSilk Weavers in your family?
The romance of silk weaving, it must have been incredible to produce such a thing of beauty out of the poverty stricken areas of East London. Do you have silk weavers in your family history?
Read MoreArtists Rifles Cap Badge
This cap badge signifies the brilliant bravery shown by the Artists Rifles when they served in WW1, suffering disproportionatly high losses.
Read MoreArtist John Constable 1832 Paints Waterloo Bridge
John Constable and Waterloo Bridge
Read MoreArtist J.M.W Turner paints fire at Houses of Parliament 1835
Turner paints the fire at Houses of Parliament 1835
Read MorePhotographs 1839
Louis Daguerre born in Seine-et-Oise if France in 1789, reveals to the world his process for making photographs, using a silver image on a copper plate. These images are known as daguerrotypes.
Read MoreLord Nelsons Statue 1843
In 1843, a statue of Lord Nelson was erected in the newly developed Trafalgar Square. The Square had been completed two years earlier to sweep away the squalid courts and cook houses that gave it the name Porridge Island.
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