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Diagram of the 'Brookes' Slave Ship, c.1801
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Soldier's account of the Battle of Waterloo, 1815
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The Great Exhibition, 1851
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Letter from Florence Nightingale to Edwin Chadwick, 1860
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Victorian Fashion from the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, 1860
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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, 1861
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City Slums, 1868
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Freakshow Posters, 1870s
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Jack the Ripper report from the Illustrated Police News, 1888
Oliver Twist, the Great Exhibition, sprawling cities, speeding railways, freakshows and murder. Scroll down to find out more…