For the first time a woman has-been appointed guide lecturer at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington; she will conduct parties of school children and others round the cases, and give lectures on all the exhibits. Six men are constantly employed working the private looms belonging to the Marquess of Bute, making tapestries for his castle. The coarsest tapestry costs £2 a square foot, fine work costing nearly five times as much.
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Evening Star, Issue 21285, 14 December 1932, Page 8
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72Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 21285, 14 December 1932, Page 8
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