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1. students behind Southlands College, 1872 2. Southlands College, Battersea, 1872 3. students at Whitelands College



4. Whitelands College, Chelsea, 1912 5. Whitelands College hockey team, 1912-13 6. Whitelands College dining room


7. classroom scene 8. Whitelands College mid-19th century 9. cyclists in Battersea Park
   
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Acknowledgements:

1 & 2. From Eva Williams, The History of Southlands College, 1872-1972 (1972); 3, 5 & 6. From Malcolm Cole, Whitelands College. The History (1982); 4. Postcard; 7. From The Queen's London : a Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks and Scenery of the Great Metropolis, (1896) 8. From [no author] Whitelands College 1841-1947 (1947). 9. Cyclists in Battersea Park from The Queen's London : a Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks and Scenery of the Great Metropolis, (1896)

JOHN SEED teaches History and Cultural Studies at Roehampton University. He has published on politics, art, religion and the propertied classes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. He has also published on twentieth-century British and American poetry and on the 1960s and is the author of six collections of poetry. He is currently completing a book on eighteenth-century historiography, public memory and politics for Edinburgh University Press.