Wi Collection

Digging and Planting, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Digging and Planting, 1943. British women contribute to the war effort. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

Fruit Bottling, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Fruit Bottling, 1943. British women contribute to the war effort. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

Cottages by the Village Pond, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Cottages by the Village Pond, 1943. British rural scene with ducks. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

Women's Institute Market Stall, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Women's Institute Market Stall, 1943. British women contribute to the war effort. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

A Mobile Canning Van Given By the U.S.A. 1943. Creator: Unknown
A Mobile Canning Van Given By the U.S.A. 1943. British women contribute to the war effort. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

Evacuated Children with their Teacher, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Evacuated Children with their Teacher, 1943. Scene from the Second World War: British evacuees in the countryside. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

Children Leaving London for the Country, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Children Leaving London for the Country, 1943. British evacuees escape bombs during the Second World War. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

School Dinner for Evacuated Children, 1943. Creator: Unknown
School Dinner for Evacuated Children, 1943. Scene from the Second World War: British evacuees are fed. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

Preparing Fruit for Jam-Making, September 1941, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Preparing Fruit for Jam-Making, September 1941, 1943. British women contribute to the war effort. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

A Canning Demonstration at a Women's Institute Meeting, 1943. Creator: Unknown
A Canning Demonstration at a Women's Institute Meeting, 1943. British women contribute to the war effort. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

Spindle-Spinning Wool Gathered from the Hedges, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Spindle-Spinning Wool Gathered from the Hedges, 1943. British women contribute to the war effort. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

Views and crafts of Buckinghamshire, Womens Institute banner design, 1937, (1943). Page painted by a member of a Buckinghamshire Womens Institute

Vintage scene, 1704. Creator: Giovanni Girolamo Frezza
Vintage scene, 1704

Suitable Restrictions, January 28, 1789. January 28, 1789. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Suitable Restrictions, January 28, 1789

Thrift rug, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Thrift rug, 1943. Made from vegetable dyed woollen scraps by a member of a Shropshire Institute. Woven rug made from recycled materials during the Second World War

Patchwork quilt, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Patchwork quilt, 1943. Made by a member of a Yorkshire Institute. The Womens Institute (WI) was formed in Britain 1915 to revitalise rural communities

Sir Sidney Smith, who with 300 British Sailors, defended the Breach of Acre, (1764-1840), 1816. William Sidney Smith, (1764-1840) British naval officer

Sir Sidney Smith Defending the Breach at Acre, (1799), 1816. Creator: Unknown
Sir Sidney Smith Defending the Breach at Acre, (1799), 1816. William Sidney Smith, (1764-1840) British naval officer, reinforced Ottoman defences

The Crown, Chiddingfold, Surrey, 1936. Creator: Unknown
The Crown, Chiddingfold, Surrey, 1936. The Crown Inn, Chiddingfold, one of the oldest pubs in England, built as a Rest House for monks on pilgrimage in 1285

The White Tower, 1908. From Early London - Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman, by Sir Walter Besant. [Adam & Charles Black, London, 1908]

Winter landscape with a Bird Trap, 1631. Found in the Collection of Muzeul National Brukenthal, Sibiu

The Battle of Tamai, c1885. Artist: WI Mosses
The Battle of Tamai, c1885. Battle of Tamai, (13 March 1884), between the British forces and the Mahdist Sudanese army. From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. IV, by James Grant

Queen Victoria and Lord Melbourne, 1911. Artist: George Atkinson
Queen Victoria and Lord Melbourne, 1911. Prime Minister, the Whig Lord Melbourne, with 18-year-old Queen Victoria. He instructed her on political problems of the day

View of York Minster, c19th century. Artist: WI Mosses
View of York Minster, c19th century

St. James Palace. The Audience Chamber, c1841. Artist: Henry Melville
St. James Palace. The Audience Chamber. Proclaimation of Her Majesty the Queen, 21st June 1837. From London Interiors with their Costumes & Ceremonies from Drawings made by permission of the Public

Sir Sydney Smith (1764-1840) defending the breach at Acre, 1816. Artist: I Brown
Sir Sydney Smith (1764-1840) defending the breach at Acre, 1816. Smith was the English admiral of whom Napoleon Bonaparte said, That man made me miss my destiny

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