Hunting from Hampstead The Story of Henry and Lucy Stedall and Their Children

Hunting from Hampstead is the remarkable testament to the Edwardian era through the photograph albums of one extraordinary family.Begun by Lucy Stedall in 1868, this unique family archive was born out of a Victorian fascination with photography. The photographs document over 100 years of radical social change. From the fields around Hampstead where Lucy's sons, Cecil and Leigh, hunted and raced their horses, the pictures bear witness to the family's personal upheavals brought on by war and tragedy. The same beloved horses took the trip with Cecil and Leigh to the Eastern front in the Great War and the photographs never fail even in the face of conflict.Complemented by a richly detailed account of the Stedalls' social circle, which included Eric Parker, founder of The Field, J.M. Barrie, A.A. Milne and the Du Maurier family, Hunting from Hampstead is a snapshot of the way we were.