A group of women receive a lesson in boot repairing Pepin the Short Spectators and figures in ceremonial

Spectators and figures in ceremonial dress are also present

'Cits Airing Themselves on a Sunday

A woman and a boy with a basket buying meat from a butcher

View of the Bank of England showing late improvements

France's Napoleon III (left) met Austria's Francis Joseph at Villafranca and agreed terms for peace which left Venetia in Austrian hands

A group of women receive a lesson in boot repairing Pepin the Short Spectators and figures in ceremonialA group of women receive a lesson in boot repairing, World War I, c1914 c1918. A cobbler showing women how to repair boots at Scaynes Hill Women's Insititute, Sussex. Cobbling was traditionally regarded as an occupation only for men, but was efficiently taken over by women during the war.