'Hill Farm' (Beatrice Webb; Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield; George Bernard Shaw)
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'Hill Farm' (Beatrice Webb; Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield; George Bernard Shaw)
by Unknown photographer
vintage print, 28 June 1930
6 1/8 in. x 8 in. (157 mm x 202 mm) image size
Purchased, 2007
Primary Collection
NPG P1292(23)
Sittersback to top
- Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield (1859-1947), Politician; MP for Seaham, social reformer, economist and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Sitter in 90 portraits. Identify
- (Martha) Beatrice Webb (née Potter), Baroness Passfield (1858-1943), Social reformer, economist and diarist. Sitter in 76 portraits. Identify
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Playwright. Sitter in 148 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 8 portraits. Identify
Artistback to top
- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6582 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, Hertfordshire (Hill Farm, Hertfordshire near George Bernard Shaw's home)
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1930back to top
Current affairs
Amy Johnson is the first woman to fly solo to Australia. She flew the 11,000 miles from Croydon to Darwin in a De Havilland Gipsy Moth named Jason and won the Harmon Trophy as well as a CBE for her achievement. She went on to break a number of other flying records, and died while serving in the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1941.Art and science
Noel Coward's play, Private Lives is first performed. The original run starred Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier as well as Coward himself. Private Lives became Coward's most enduringly successful play.International
Gandhi leads the Salt March. The march to the coast was a direct protest against the British monopoly on the sale of salt and inspired hordes of Indians to follow him and adopt his methods of Satyagraha (non-violent resistance to the British rule of India).Stalin orders the 'liquidation of the kulaks (wealthy farmers) as a class' in a violent attempt to centralise control of agriculture and collectivise farming.
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