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1704East India Co's sales
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1704East India porcelain
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1709Queen's Royal Cookery
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1710Cabinet of curiosities
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1715Sugar in Britain
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1720Bartholomew Fair
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1721Gulliver's Travels
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1725Executions at Tyburn
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1730Textile production
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1730Cities in chaos
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1731East India textiles
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1733The Harlot’s Progress
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1741Handel's Messiah
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1742Advert for a giant
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1743Surgery
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1743Muffin Seller
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1744JS Bach manuscript
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1747The Art of Cookery
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1751Henry Fielding: Crime
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1751Gin addiction
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1753Ranelagh pleasure gardens
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1755Johnson's Dictionary
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1761'The British Giant'
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1766Jigsaw Puzzle Map
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1770The Spinning Jenny
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1771Pleasure gardens
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1771Factories
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1773London prostitutes
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1775Captain Cook's journal
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1776Declaration of Independence
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1780Map of the Gordon Riots
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1780Storming of the Bastille
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1781Runaway slaves
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1784First curry powder advert
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1784First hot air balloon
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1787Abolitionist meeting notes
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1787Georgian entertainments
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1790Georgian Theatre
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1791Mozart’s notebook
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1791Poverty
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1791Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
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1792Mary Wollstonecraft
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1793Execution of Louis XVI
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1794William Blake's Notebook
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1795An acrobat's 'Surprising Performances'
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Intro
Throughout the 1700s and 1800s, human ‘curiosities’ were exhibited for the entertainment of the general public. These exhibits included people with physical disabilities or those from overseas who were thought to look ‘different’. This handbill advertises Henry Blacker ‘The British Giant’ who was ‘thought by all who have viewed him to be the tallest man ever exhibited in England’. Such adverts were prone to exaggeration!
Shelfmark: C103k.11
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