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Autograph Letter by Ben Jonson Concerning The Gunp...
Manuscript, Letter Created date: 1605This letter was written by the playwright Ben Jonson on 8 November 1605, three days after the Gunpowder Plot was discove...
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Cabinet papers proposing that Magna Carta be gifte...
Report, Letter Created date: 1941In 1939, and again in 1940, Lincoln Cathedral’s Magna Carta was exhibited at the New York World’s Fair. This first overs...
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Colour print depicting the Peterloo Massacre
Print, ImageOn 16 August 1819, a meeting of peaceful protestors campaigning for parliamentary reform was broken up by the Manchester...
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Dunlap's Printing of the Declaration of Independen...
CharterWithin hours of the vote approving and announcing the American Declaration of Independence, copies of the text were prin...
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Instructions for the equal treatment of black and...
Manuscript Created date: 1797These instructions, set out to Major General Hunter in 1797, make it clear that the black soldiers of the British Army...
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Letter arguing for the recruitment of black soldie...
Letter Created date: 25 December 1794This is an extract of a letter written in late 1794 by General Sir John Vaughan, commanding officer in the Windward and...
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Letter concerning the loyalty of the West India Re...
Letter Created date: 24 Jan 1861This is a letter from Charles Henry Darling, who was governor of Jamaica from 1857 to 1862. As governor, he was the most...
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Letter of King Charles I ordering that Edward Coke...
Manuscript, Letter Created date: 26 July 1634Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) did not live to see the publication of the final volumes of The Institutes of the Lawes of E...
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Letter showing the opposition to the raising of th...
LetterThis document is a letter written in 1797 on behalf of the House of Assembly in Barbados. This was the local government...
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Magna Carta, 1297
Manuscript Created date: 1297After 1225 no new versions of either Magna Carta or the Charter of the Forest were issued. Instead, when called upon to ...
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Map of the murder of Lord Darnley, 1567
Map, Manuscript, View, Illustration, Image Created date: 1567This drawing vividly depicts the murder of Lord Darnley on 10th February 1567 at Kirk o’ Field, Edinburgh. The manuscrip...
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Memorandum of the distribution of copies of Magna...
Manuscript Created date: 1215-16It remains uncertain how many copies of Magna Carta were dispatched in 1215 and who were the intended recipients. Four s...
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Paul Bogle's proclamation of 17 October 1865 incit...
Proclamation Created date: 17 October 1865Paul Bogle was the deacon of the Baptist Church in Stony Gut, a village in the parish of St Thomas-in-the-East in Jamaic...
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Petition to the Privy Council against using Blackf...
Manuscript, Petition Created date: 1631This is a copy from 1631 of a 1596 petition to the Privy Council by Blackfriars residents. The locals were successful in...
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Pipe Roll for 1213–1214
Manuscript Created date: 1213 - 14Each year, the English Exchequer’s audit of the sheriffs’ accounts was recorded on long rolls of parchment, known as Pip...
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