


East India Co's sales

East India porcelain

Queen's Royal Cookery

Cabinet of curiosities

Sugar in Britain

Bartholomew Fair

Gulliver's Travels

Executions at Tyburn

Textile production

Cities in chaos

East India textiles

The Harlot’s Progress

Handel's Messiah

Advert for a giant

Surgery

Muffin Seller

JS Bach manuscript

The Art of Cookery

Henry Fielding: Crime

Gin addiction

Ranelagh pleasure gardens

Johnson's Dictionary

'The British Giant'

Jigsaw Puzzle Map

The Spinning Jenny

Pleasure gardens

Factories

London prostitutes

Captain Cook's journal

Declaration of Independence

Map of the Gordon Riots

Storming of the Bastille

Runaway slaves

First curry powder advert

First hot air balloon

Abolitionist meeting notes

Georgian entertainments

Georgian Theatre

Mozart’s notebook

Poverty

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

Mary Wollstonecraft

Execution of Louis XVI

William Blake's Notebook

An acrobat's 'Surprising Performances'
The Declaration of Independence was a document approved by the American Congress on 4 July 1776, announcing the separation of thirteen North American British colonies (the nucleus of the future United States) from Great Britain. The 4 July is now known as Independence Day and is celebrated all over North America. The thirteen colonies had been at war with Britain since April 1775 and the American Revolution continued during 1775 and 1776. This illustration, published later in 1856 from 'The Life of George Washington', shows the Declaration of Independence being announced.
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