A group of women receive a lesson in boot repairing Pepin the Short Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait

'Cits Airing Themselves on a Sunday

France's Napoleon III (left) met Austria's Francis Joseph at Villafranca and agreed terms for peace which left Venetia in Austrian hands

A woman and a boy with a basket buying meat from a butcher

Spectators and figures in ceremonial dress are also present

A group of women receive a lesson in boot repairing Pepin the Short Self-PortraitA group of women receive a lesson in boot repairing, World War I, c1914 c1918. A cobbler showing women how to repair boots at Scaynes Hill Women's Insititute, Sussex. Cobbling was traditionally regarded as an occupation only for men, but was efficiently taken over by women during the war.