Hanoverian (1714 – 1837)
Explore objects, stories and blogs that reveal London life in the 18th and early-19th century, when five kings from the House of Hanover ruled Britain.
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Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Six things you didn’t know about executions in London
London’s courts condemned more people to die than the rest of England, and six facts you may not know
Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
Olaudah Equiano: Writer & abolitionist
A freed enslaved man whose life story drove the abolition of the British trade in enslaved Africans
Lifestyle & Leisure
Lifestyle & Leisure
Masquerades in London’s pleasure gardens
Put on your finest costume and join revellers on London’s fashionable 18th-century dancefloors
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Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Heads & Ornaments on the North Side of the Monument of King Sebert, in Westminster Abbey (engraving)
Basire I, James
1780-04-23
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
View of Somerset House (engraving)
Dayes, Edward, Murray, G., Stockdale, John
1797-02-24