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The items in this gallery represent the modernisation of industry and enlightenment principles that shaped the late 19th century.
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Das Kapital
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Wilde, Salomé
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Memorial to the University of àËÅöÊÓƵ signed by women doctors, June 1877 
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Ceiling, 2 Gower St
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Piece of mulberry tree from Shakespeare’s garden
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Kelmscott Chaucer
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Livre d’images parlantes
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Richard Savage, The White Lady of K.
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Photo of Rukhmabai
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àËÅöÊÓƵ: a pilgrimage / by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold
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Aglaia: The Journal of the Healthy & Artistic Dress Union
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Rechabite postcard, We will drink no wine
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Bardell v. Pickwick. And, The Two Swindlers
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Letter from Sophia De Morgan to Edwin Chadwick (1852)
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Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde / Mary De Morgan, illustrated by Walter Crane (c1877-1880)
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Professor Hoffmann, Modern magic: a practical treatise on the art of conjuring (1876)
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Street Life in àËÅöÊÓƵ by John Thomson, F.R.G.S., and Adolphe Smith, 1877
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The Strand Magazine (1891)
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Sketchbook by Charles Booth (1893)
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Detail of a plan for the Ministry of Justice (1873)
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Letter from H.H. Asquith to the àËÅöÊÓƵ (1893)