Pupils of the school photographed in 1895.
The Church of England Primary School in the village of Harby in Leicestershire, England opened on the 25th of March, 1861.
Part of the National Society for Promoting Religious Education, an organisation formed to promote education in England and Wales before the government began to regulate the school system, the building was constructed in 1860. It had two classrooms, and living accommodations for the teacher.
P. L. Travers in the role of Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, circa 1924.
State Library of New South Wales
Today would have been the 121st birthday of the Australian creator of Mary Poppins, P. L. Travers.
Born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland on the 9th of August 1899, she moved to Bowral, New South Wales in 1907.
As an adult she travelled Australia and New Zealand, and later England as an actress, changing her name to Pamela Lyndon Travers.
Travers created Mary Poppins while renting a cottage in Sussex, England in 1933, and the first book was published in 1934.
The eighth and final book in the series was published in 1988.
Travers died, aged ninety-six, in April of 1996.
Early French filmmaker Gabriel Veyre premiered À travers l’Indochine (1° série). Embarquement d’un boeuf à bord d’un navire (Through Indochina (1st series). Bull being loaded on a ship) in Lyon.
It was part of a series recorded in Tonkin (present-day Vietnam) between 1899 and 1900.
P. L. Travers in the role of Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, circa 1924.
State Library of New South Wales
Today would have been the 120th birthday of the Australian creator of Mary Poppins, P. L. Travers.
Born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland on the 9th of August 1899, she moved to Bowral, New South Wales in 1907.
As an adult she travelled Australia and New Zealand, and later England as an actress, changing her name to Pamela Lyndon Travers.
Travers created Mary Poppins while renting a cottage in Sussex, England in 1933, and the first book was published in 1934.
The eighth and final book in the series was published in 1988.
Travers died, aged ninety-six, in April of 1996.
Travers died, aged ninety-six, in April of 1996.
This photograph was taken in London on the 22nd of June, 1897. Queen Victoria, then aged seventy-eight, takes part in a procession in honour of her Diamond Jubilee – sixty years on the British throne.
The Queen would die less than four years after this image was taken.
This Victorian illustration was created by Englishwoman Kate Greenaway, and is dated the 26th of March, 1891.
Greenaway, who was born in London in 1846, was an internationally successful creator of children’s books and a painter of many watercolours.
The artist died in London in 1901.
Bethlehem. 25th December 1898: A man and a woman recreate the approach of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem. At the time the city was ruled by the Ottoman Empire.
Canadian Christmas stamp of 1898, less than three years before the end of Queen Victoria‘s long reign. At this point Canada was still part of the British Empire.
‘We hold a vaster Empire than has been’.
Ottoman Turks are seen departing Chania (Hania) on the Greek island of Crete on the 3rd of November, 1898.
During Ottoman occupation, Chania’s churches were turned into mosques. However, a population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s at the Ottoman Empire’s dissolution ended Islamic influence in the region.
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