Collection items

A Room with a View

Book

This is the cover of the first edition of E M Forster’s novel A Room with a View. It was Forster’s third novel after Whe...

Album of Baha’i calligraphy

Manuscript Created date: early 19th – early 20th century

An album of Baha’i calligraphy including childhood calligraphic exercises by Baha’u’llah and tablets by Baha’u’llah copi...

Aubrey Beardsley illustrations for Salomé by Oscar...

Print, Illustration, Image

This portfolio contains unbound plates of the 16 designs used for the 1907 edition of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé by Jo...

Cigarette Cards depicting soldiers of the West Ind...

Cigarette card Created date: c. 1890s

These cigarette cards, and others such as Philips cigarettes, were typical collectors items at the turn of the 20th cent...

E M Forster's draft of Howards End

Manuscript, Draft Created date: 1908–10

This is the manuscript draft of E M Forster’s novel Howards End. First published in 1910, the novel became Forster’s fir...

E M Forster's early draft of A Room with a View

Manuscript, Draft Created date: c. 1901–08

This is an early draft of E M Forster’s novel A Room with a View. The novel was published in 1908, but Forster had begun...

Gustav Holst's Choral hymns from the Rig Veda

Manuscript Created date: 1908–1912

The Rig Veda is a collection of over 1000 sacred hymns of praise composed in Vedic Sanskrit. It is one of the four great...

Henry Irving as Shylock and Ellen Terry as Portia

Book, Illustration, Image, Photogravure

These portraits show two well-known Victorian actors in a ground-breaking production of The Merchant of Venice at the Ly...

Hunter’s Map of Arabia

Map Created date: 1905-1908

This large map of Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf was compiled by Lieutenant Frederick Fraser Hunter between 1905...

La Guerre Infernale: aerial warfare science fictio...

Book, Illustration, Image

Pierre Giffard’s La Guerre Infernale (The Infernal War, 1908) was an adventure story for children, published in weekly i...

Letter from Delius to Szántó (1908)

Letter Created date: 28 September 1908

Frederick Delius’s Piano Concerto in C minor is a work with a long and complex history of revisions and disputes. It was...

Letters from E M Forster to Lytton Strachey, 1908–...

Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 1908–24

These are some of the letters that E M Forster sent to his friend and fellow writer Lytton Strachey, one of the core mem...

Maud Arncliffe Sennett's scrapbook, volume 5

Ephemera, Illustration, Image, Photograph, Scrapbook Created date: 22 August - 31 October 1908

Created by suffrage campaigner Maud Arncliffe Sennett, this scrapbook is part of a wider series that provides a unique a...

Oxford and Working-class Education, a report

Book

Oxford and Working-Class Education is a report from a committee that looked at the potential for artisans and mechanics ...

Photograph of Emmeline Pankhurst

Photograph, Image Created date: c. 1906 - 1914

Emmeline Pankhurst is shown in this photograph, flanked by police officers, during the WSPU’s (Women’s Social and Polit...