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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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
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
Collections
Collections
Disability, as seen in 18th-century art
We look at four artworks to see how disabled people were portrayed in the 18th century
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Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
Skelt's Characters in the Travellers Benighted (character sheet)
Skelt, Martin
1835-1837