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Lifestyle & Leisure
Lifestyle & Leisure

When London was swept up in balloon mania

Balloon ascents were all the rage in the late 1700s and 1800s

Collections
Collections

From royal menagerie to murderous gardener: A holiday in Georgian London

Elizabeth Chivers’ unpublished diary reveals stories of ghosts and iconic landmarks in 1814 London

Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers

Peggy Jones: Mudlarking for survival

This mudlark earned her living, and some infamy, scavenging coal along the filthy River Thames

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Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Paintings, Prints & Drawings

Guildhall (engraving)

Gentleman's Magazine

1751-01

Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Paintings, Prints & Drawings

Costume Parisien, Chapeau de Crepe orne de Tulle. Fichu en Cravate (hand coloured engraving)

Journal des Dames et des Modes

1803

Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera

9th & 13th Scene in Rob Roy (scenery sheet)

Hodgson and Company

1822-1830