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Griselda Joynson-Hicks

by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 1924
7 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in. (192 mm x 140 mm) image size
Purchased, 1996
Photographs Collection
NPG x85782

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After narrowly winning the general election the previous year, Stanley Baldwin calls a vote of confidence at the opening of the new session of Parliament and is defeated. George V invited James Ramsay Macdonald to form a minority Labour government, making him the first Labour Prime Minister.

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Eric Liddell wins the gold medal at the Olympic games, breaking the record for running the 400 metres in 47.6 seconds. The distance was not in fact his strongest event, but he refused to run the 100 metres because the heats were held on the Sabbath. His story is told in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.

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After three strokes and several years of illness Lenin dies. Three days later the city of Petrograd is renamed Leningrad in his honour. On coming to power Stalin began the policy of 'socialism in one country' abandoning the traditional hope for international proletarian revolution in order to strengthen Russia internally and independently.

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Dr Janet Pennington

16 January 2018, 11:47

I think this may be an early photograph of the head mistress of The Monkey Club - Griselda Joynson-Hicks - a girls finishing school which I believe began in Pont Street, London. The school came to Eastbourne during WWII and to Wiston House in Sussex from c.1946-1950, then possibly on to Belgravia. I know very little about this school and there seems to be a great lack of information about it. I see there is a Getty photo of possibly the same lady in middle-age. I am an historian of Wiston House and would myself like to know more about her. see my website www.sussexhistorytalks.co.uk