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Kodak in the Sutherland Collection

The Sutherland Collection includes an advertisement card for the 'Grand Souvenir Exhibition' of 'Kodak Pictures' illustrating the Royal Tour. The photos had been taken by the special correspondent of ...

Jaeger Clothing

Amongst the many documents relating to clothing in the Sutherland Collection is an advertisement for 'Jaeger' of Regent Street, London. The advertisement promotes the company's 'pure wool men's shirtings ...

HMV in the Sutherland Papers

Amongst the many commerical advertismements in the Sutherland Collection is an advertisement for 'His Master's Voice Records'. This leaflet, from the modern day music store HMV features the original logo ...

Goldsmith’s Almanack, 1715

Amongst the personal papers of Sir John Leveson-Gower, 2nd Baron Gower and 1st Earl Gower (1694-1754) is a tiny leather bound book entitled ‘Goldsmith, 1715 An Almanack’. The title pages states that the ...

Flannel Suits and Fancy Vests!

The Sutherland Collection contains an enormous number of documents relating to commercial culture in the early twentieth century. Amongst these papers are advertisement cards and leaflets from men's ...

Dr. Deimel Underwear

One of the many advertisements from clothing companies in the Sutherland Collection comes from the 'Dr. Deimel Underwear Depot' in London. Dated 27th April 1906, Dr. Deimel's advertisement comes in ...

A Dog’s Life: Henry Wright’s ‘Game’ Memoranda

Amongst the volumes of memoranda in the Sutherland Papers are two books compiled by Henry Wright, secretary to the Duke of Sutherland entitled ‘Game’. The books from the 1850s to the late 1870s contain ...

The Millicent Sutherland Ambulance: Namur, August 1914

On 17th August the Millicent Sutherland Ambulance were sent to Namur and established their hospital in the convent of Les Soeurs de Notre Dame. On 22nd August German forces attacked Namur and the hospital ...

What can the Documents tell us about Public Opinion of the Food Supply Crisis?

Documents in the Sutherland Collection suggest that concern over England’s food supply in time of war was a prominent public issue in the early twentieth century. The pamphlet above entitled ‘Labour ...

The Mansion House Committee and the Controversy over Corn

Many of the newspaper cuttings and booklets relating to England’s food supply concern imported Corn, particularly the ‘abolition of registration fees on imported corn’. One document from the Leicestershire ...

Prohibition on Illegal Butter

Amongst the papers relating to England’s food supply in time of war are pamphlets refering to a Parliamentary Bill ‘to amend the law with regard to the sale of adulterated butter’. The Bill appears ...

Grow your own wheat!

Amongst the pamphlets relating to England's food supply during war is a cutting ‘reprinted from the Sussex Daily News’ dated Monday March 2nd 1903 entitled ‘Our Food Supply in Time of War’. The reprint ...

Inflation causing Starvation

A pamphlet entitled ‘Our Food-Supply in Time of War’ by Rear Admiral C. C. Penrose Fitzgerald reprinted from Blackwoods Magazine in February 1903 indicates that inflation caused by a dearth in imported ...

England’s Reliance on Imported Food

Many of the documents relating to the food supply in time of war crisis indicate that a central concern was England’s reliance on imported food. One newspaper clipping suggests that Britain would be ...

Why did the Duke establish an association concerned with food supply?

The documents relating to the work of the Association provide a detailed insight into the motivation behind its foundation. A booklet about the Association states that following ‘the War in South Africa’: ‘recent ...

The End of The Millicent Sutherland Ambulance Unit

The Millicent Sutherland Ambulance disbanded at the end of the war in November 1918. The printed diary of the Unit from 1918 reflects on the end of the Unit’s life, the entry for November 22nd 1918 reading: ...