Background to the RSA's history

The Fountain Carpet' in patent knot stitch fabric, 12 x 9ft, designed by Maxwell Armfield for Tomkinsons Ltd, Kidderminster

Designed by Ronald Grierson, manufactured by the Redfern Publishing Co. Ltd

Partridge feather carpet, 12 x 9ft, designed by Raymond B Simpson and manufactured by Tomkinsons Ltd, Kidderminster

Won prize of £12 under section 2, Textiles, prize offered by Messrs Brinton Limited

Designed by Ronald Grierson, manufactured by the Redfern Publishing Co Ltd

1851 Great Exhibition

Image not used but commissioned to illustrate Programme report on Focus on Food

Image used to illustrate the Programme report on Environment. Photography by John Edwards

Cartoon by Acanthus of two men in a boat on the Thames, caption 'Or would you like St Paul's blotted out by a perishin' great power station?' H.F. Hoar, Punch, 14/5/1947

Cartoon by G.D. Armour of two huntsmen on horses, caption 'Huntsman (to troublesome novice) 'Sorry to have got in your way, Ma'am, I hope it hasnit prevented you catching the fox'

Cartoon by George Du Maurier, 1889, of two women and a child on a bench, caption 'Female Amenities, proud mother (piqued that her child's advance meet with no response from fair stranger) 'Why, baby dear, that's not your Grandma''