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Virginia Woolf in a Deckchair, 1912
A painting by Vanessa Bell of her sister, the author Virginia Woolf, entitled Virgina Woolf in a Deckchair, (1912).
Primary Text: The housekeeper's guide to the fish market for each month of the year : and some account of fish and fisheries, to which are added a few excellent recipes for cooking some sorts of fish: Preface
An 1883 "Housekeeper's Guide" to navigating the local fish markets and the seasonality of various fish in the British Isles. The full text contains seasonal calendars and a variety of recipes for the most common fish.
Primary Text: Cornish Pilchard Fishery
An 1872 text describing the methods used to catch and package pilchards along the Cornish coast of England.
St. Ives 1910, from "From Devon to St. Ives"
A photo taken of a beach town in St. Ives, Cornwall.
"A Crofter's House on the Moor," Isle of Skye
A photograph from the Isle of Skye from the book "The Misty Isle of Skye"
Excerpt from Lord Northcliffe's War Book
Lord Northcliffe's account of a civilian at war, from the perspective of a newspaper company owner