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A Room with a View
BookThis 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...
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Album of Baha’i calligraphy
Manuscript Created date: early 19th – early 20th centuryAn album of Baha’i calligraphy including childhood calligraphic exercises by Baha’u’llah and tablets by Baha’u’llah copi...
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Aubrey Beardsley illustrations for Salomé by Oscar...
Print, Illustration, ImageThis portfolio contains unbound plates of the 16 designs used for the 1907 edition of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé by Jo...
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Cigarette Cards depicting soldiers of the West Ind...
Cigarette card Created date: c. 1890sThese cigarette cards, and others such as Philips cigarettes, were typical collectors items at the turn of the 20th cent...
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E M Forster's draft of Howards End
Manuscript, Draft Created date: 1908–10This is the manuscript draft of E M Forster’s novel Howards End. First published in 1910, the novel became Forster’s fir...
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E M Forster's early draft of A Room with a View
Manuscript, Draft Created date: c. 1901–08This 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...
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Gustav Holst's Choral hymns from the Rig Veda
Manuscript Created date: 1908–1912The Rig Veda is a collection of over 1000 sacred hymns of praise composed in Vedic Sanskrit. It is one of the four great...
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Henry Irving as Shylock and Ellen Terry as Portia
Book, Illustration, Image, PhotogravureThese portraits show two well-known Victorian actors in a ground-breaking production of The Merchant of Venice at the Ly...
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Hunter’s Map of Arabia
Map Created date: 1905-1908This large map of Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf was compiled by Lieutenant Frederick Fraser Hunter between 1905...
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La Guerre Infernale: aerial warfare science fictio...
Book, Illustration, ImagePierre Giffard’s La Guerre Infernale (The Infernal War, 1908) was an adventure story for children, published in weekly i...
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Letter from Delius to Szántó (1908)
Letter Created date: 28 September 1908Frederick Delius’s Piano Concerto in C minor is a work with a long and complex history of revisions and disputes. It was...
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Letters from E M Forster to Lytton Strachey, 1908–...
Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 1908–24These are some of the letters that E M Forster sent to his friend and fellow writer Lytton Strachey, one of the core mem...
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Maud Arncliffe Sennett's scrapbook, volume 5
Ephemera, Illustration, Image, Photograph, Scrapbook Created date: 22 August - 31 October 1908Created by suffrage campaigner Maud Arncliffe Sennett, this scrapbook is part of a wider series that provides a unique a...
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Oxford and Working-class Education, a report
BookOxford and Working-Class Education is a report from a committee that looked at the potential for artisans and mechanics ...
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Photograph of Emmeline Pankhurst
Photograph, Image Created date: c. 1906 - 1914Emmeline Pankhurst is shown in this photograph, flanked by police officers, during the WSPU’s (Women’s Social and Polit...
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