Pictures of the month #7 – Floods in Berkshire
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Author
- Alison Hilton
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Published Date
- January 16, 2014
Photographic Assistant, Caroline Benson has selected 2 particularly topical images from our collections this month…
The subject of this month’s photographs will seem all too familiar to many people living by the Thames. They show the floods of November 1895 in the riverside village of Pangbourne in Berkshire. Small boats & punts can be seen transporting people along the streets & walkways constructed from wooden planks are used as pavements. The photographs are from the Sulham House Collection of some two hundred and forty prints showing life in and around Sulham between the 1880s & 1920s.
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Author
- lottiewood
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Published Date
- February 19, 2026
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“I am the farm worker going home at evening”: gender fluidity, rural landscapes, and the Women’s Land Army
Library trainee Lottie Wood reflects on gender fluidity in the work of E. M. Barraud, and Barraud’s reflections on her time in the Women’s Land Army
