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• Map of the World showing British Empire from the Graphic, 1886.Download image (3389kB)Visit page
• Letter written in 1838 by missionaries in Australia asking for help from the Governor of New South Wales.Download image (734kB)Download audio (0.55Mb)Download simple transcript (232 bytes)Download transcript (573 bytes)Visit page
• Letter concerning immigrants from India who went to Trinidad. 1857.Download image (108kB)Download audio (1.01Mb)Download simple transcript (549 bytes)Download transcript (883 bytes)Visit page
• Pair of baggy embroidered cotton trousers from Burma.Download image (208kB)Visit page
• Necklace of glass beads made in South Africa.Download image (502kB)Visit page
• Souvenir plate for the Golden Jubilee in 1887.Download image (1474kB)Visit page
• Illustration of the Colonies Court at The Great Exhibition in 1851.Download image (1603kB)Visit page
• Letter to England reporting on the progress of young boys sent to Australia in the 1840's.Download image (479kB)Download PDF Transcript (70kB)Download audio (1.99Mb)Download simple transcript (36 bytes)Visit page
• Article from the Illustrated London News describing the exhibits in the Canadian court at The Great Exhibition in 1851.Download image (1194kB)Download audio (0.62Mb)Download simple transcript (470 bytes)Download transcript (643 bytes)Visit page
• A thanksgiving prayer given in churches across Britain following the Indian Mutiny in 1859.Download image (172kB)Download audio (0.55Mb)Download transcript (455 bytes)Visit page
• Paisley shawl from Kashmir in India in around 1850.Download image (3601kB)Visit page
• Biscuit tin, 1894.Download image (1254kB)Visit page
• Watercolour drawings for the cover of a book called Colonia Souvenir Album of the Colonies published in 1889.Download image (841kB)Visit page
• A woman's dress from Abyssinia.Download image (1581kB)Visit page
• Illustration from The Graphic showing scenes from life in Ireland, 1882.Download image (189kB)Visit page
• Photograph of Queen Victoria having a lesson in Hindustani from her Muslim servant, Munshi Hafiz Abdul Karin, 1897.Download image (647kB)Visit page
• Furniture fabric. called 'The British Empire', designed in 1887.Download image (1734kB)Visit page
• A board game called 'A Tour through the British Colonies'. London is shown as the centre of the Empire, 1853.Download image (835kB)Visit page