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If you saw a female footballer wearing one of these bonnets at a football match today, you would think she looked ver...
Nowadays it is easy for women to take their right to vote for granted, but it is important to remember that it hasn't...
When you look at this bottle of Blood Purifying Mixture it is hard to believe that this was used as medicine, it look...
Sir Hiram Maxim was an American inventor with a wild imagination. He is most famous for his invention of the Maxim ma...
This charming little alphabet book is a type of chapbook, a cheap form of literature that was common from the 17th to...
This beautiful and colourful locket makes our modern day jewellery look rather plain. Its intricate detailing shows t...
This beautifully illustrated book is called a Haggadah book, it is used during the Jewish festival of Passover and it...
This is a very special object, it shows us the early stages of one of the most famous children's stories in history. ...
This drawing shows Bunty and Marmaduke in their little boat, rowing towards a lighthouse. It looks like quite a nice...
This is the closest thing we have to knowing what the infamous pirate Captain Blackbeard looked like. The artist nev...
Have you ever seen a sheep with four horns before? The loghtan (or loaghtan as it's sometimes spelled) was an ancient...
What are these hands saying to you? Are they stopping you or inviting you? Are they waving to you? What could they ...
If you were a captain in charge of a ship on a long sea voyage, wouldn’t it be useful to know where in the ocean y...
You'll never believe the story behind this object. It's incredible. Click on the museum description to find out more.
This is one of the more unusual objects from the Wellcome Collection. It is a model eye with a glass lens mounted on ...
What an incredible object! You may have heard of a Swiss Army Knife, it is a pocket knife with many tools attached to...
