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Eagle standard of the French 105th Regiment captured at Waterloo. Copyright National Army Museum.

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Description of a Slave Ship

Themes: Social and cultural revolution, Economic and technological revolution, Challenging slavery: abolition and opposition, Printing revolution, People in motion: exiles and opportunities

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph

Themes: Economic and technological revolution, Medicine, science and the people, Printing revolution

The Blessings of Peace or the Curse of the Corn Law

Themes: The arts in the Age of Revolution, Challenging law and order: British riots and reforms, The impact of industry, Economic and technological revolution, British politics in the Age of Revolution, Printing revolution, Trade, tariffs and taxes

Tom Paine’s writing desk

Themes: Political Revolution, Revolutionary ideas, American war of independence (1775 - 1783), American revolution, Printing revolution

The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African

Themes: Revolutionary ideas, The arts in the Age of Revolution, Social and cultural revolution, Haitian revolution (1791 - 1804), Challenging slavery: abolition and opposition, Printing revolution, People in motion: exiles and opportunities, Trade, tariffs and taxes

Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

Themes: Political Revolution, Revolutionary ideas, Printing revolution

The life and adventures of Michael Armstrong, the factory boy by Frances Trollope

Themes: Challenging law and order: British riots and reforms, The impact of industry, Economic and technological revolution, British politics in the Age of Revolution, Printing revolution, People in motion: exiles and opportunities

The Penny Black postage stamp

Themes: Economic and technological revolution, Printing revolution

Poster advertising the Chartists’ Demonstration on Kennington Common, 1848

Themes: Revolutionary ideas, Challenging law and order: British riots and reforms, Economic and technological revolution, British politics in the Age of Revolution, Printing revolution, Redesigning Europe

Frontispiece to Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

Themes: Revolutionary ideas, The arts in the Age of Revolution, Printing revolution