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Handmade Shakespeare book cabinet by John Drinkwater

Handmade bookcase housing the following Shakespeare pocket editions:

A Midsummer Night's Dream
As You Like It
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King John
King Henry IV Part II
King Henry V
King Lear
King Richard II
King Richard III
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's Hamlet Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare's Macbeth
Shakespeare's Pericles
Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
The Merchant of Venice
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Venus and Adonis

Volumes inscribed "Tanya from Big John July 1928" and "Tanya from John D 1931". Includes handwritten label "John Drinkwater made this bookcase of is Shakespeare collection when in Birmingham (or Nottingham) & gave it to Tanya Moiseiwitsch" and small image of a pencil drawing of Drinkwater's profile

The Duke of Windsor: A Biography in pictures

The Duke of Windsor celebrates his 78th birthday on 23 June. These photographs, many of them historic, illustrate a Royal life and career crowded with incident. Above: A picture, taken at Balmoral in 1910, of the Duke (then Prince of Wales) with his brothers and sister. From left, Prince George, later Duke of Kent; Prince Albert, who was to become Duke of York and King George VI; Princess Mary, later Princess Royal; and Prince Henry, now Duke of Gloucester. Below: A man is seized by police after a revolver had been thrown near the Duke when, as King Edward VIII, he rode on Constitution Hill at the head of the Guards in July 1936

Agency: Press Association

The life and times of the Duke of Windsor

A series of pictures depicting the life and times of the Duke of Windsor. The Duke, who is the eldest son of his late Majesty King George V, was born 23 June 1894. He ascended the throne as King Edward VIII in January 1936 and abdicated in December 1936. Six months later her married Mrs Wallis Warfield (formerly Simpson). The Duke now lives in France. Photo shows The Prince of Wales with cowboys at Saskatoon during his tour of Canada in 1919

Agency: Central Press Photos

The life and times of the Duke of Windsor

A series of pictures depicting the life and times of the Duke of Windsor. The Duke, who is the eldest son of his late Majesty King George V, was born 23 June 1894. He ascended the throne as King Edward VIII in January 1936 and abdicated in December 1936. Six months later her married Mrs Wallis Warfield (formerly Simpson). The Duke now lives in France. Photo shows The Duke of Windsor, when Prince of Wales, pictured in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1919. He is seen signing the visitors book

Agency: Central Press Photos

The life and times of the Duke of Windsor

A series of pictures depicting the life and times of the Duke of Windsor. The Duke, who is the eldest son of his late Majesty King George V, was born 23 June 1894. He ascended the throne as King Edward VIII in January 1936 and abdicated in December 1936. Six months later her married Mrs Wallis Warfield (formerly Simpson). The Duke now lives in France. Photo shows The Duke of Windsor (left) with Lord Mountbatten on HMS Renown during his world tour in 1919

Agency: Central Press Photo

The life and times of the Duke of Windsor

A series of pictures depicting the life and times of the Duke of Windsor. The Duke, who is the eldest son of his late Majesty King George V, was born 23 June 1894. He ascended the throne as King Edward VIII in January 1936 and abdicated in December 1936. Six months later her married Mrs Wallis Warfield (formerly Simpson). The Duke now lives in France. Photo shows The Prince of Wales as chief morning "Tar" during his tour of Canada in 1919

Agency: Central Press Photos

The life and times of the Duke of Windsor

A series of pictures depicting the life and times of the Duke of Windsor. The Duke, who is the eldest son of his late Majesty King George V, was born 23 June 1894. He ascended the throne as King Edward VIII in January 1936 and abdicated in December 1936. Six months later her married Mrs Wallis Warfield (formerly Simpson). The Duke now lives in France. Photo shows The Duke of Windsor then the Prince of Wales with his guide on the banks of the river Nipigon, during his tour of Canada in 1919

Agency: Central Press Photos

The life and times of the Duke of Windsor

A series of pictures depicting the life and times of the Duke of Windsor. The Duke, who is the eldest son of his late Majesty King George V, was born 23 June 1894. He ascended the throne as King Edward VIII in January 1936 and abdicated in December 1936. Six months later her married Mrs Wallis Warfield (formerly Simpson). Photo shows The Duke of Windsor when King Edward VIII with Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (left) outside the advanced GHQ train at Iwuy, France, on armistice day 11 November 1918

Agency: Central Press Photos

The life and times of the Duke of Windsor

A series of pictures depicting the life and times of the Duke of Windsor. The Duke, who is the eldest son of his late Majesty King George V, was born 23 June 1894. He ascended the throne as King Edward VIII in January 1936 and abdicated in December 1936. Six months later her married Mrs Wallis Warfield (formerly Simpson). The Duke now lives in France. Photo shows The Duke of Windsor, then the Prince of Wales and a young officer in the army talking to Italian and French officers's on the Italian front during the First World War

Agency: Central Press Photos

The life and times of the Duke of Windsor

A series of pictures depicting the life and times of the Duke of Windsor. The Duke, who is the eldest son of his late Majesty King George V, was born 23 June 1894. He ascended the throne as King Edward VIII in January 1936 and abdicated in December 1936. Six months later her married Mrs Wallis Warfield (formerly Simpson). Photo shows The Duke of Windsor, then a young officer in the British Army with his father King George V (with beard) examining a gas bomb at Helfaut, France, during the First World War

Broadcast Date: June 1972

Agency: Central Press Photos

Wilfrid Gibson's "Certificate of employment during the war"

Form describing a soldier's work during military service in order to help him find employment after de-mobilisation. It lists Gibson's rank as "Private" and regimental employment as "Clerking" from January 1917 to January 1918, adding the comment that he was an "efficient and reliable clerk". The form is signed by Gibson

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