Brit Collection

British Empire Map 1880
Map showing the extent of the British Empire circa 1880

HMS Britannia and Hindostan Training Ship Victorian period

HMS Britannia Training Ship Victorian period

Buttes New Brit CWGC Cemetery & New Zealand Memorial Date: 2016

Seal of New England
The seal of New England. Date: 1685

WORLD MAP / BRIT EMPIRE
World map, showing the British Empire Date: 1902

NAPOLEONIC BRIT 1814
1st Regiment of Foot Guards in Spain during the Peninsular Campaign Date: 1814

BRIT-IT SUBMARINE DUEL
Italian submarine Toti engages a British submarine in combat - and wins ! Viva Italia ! Date: October 1940

FRANCO-BRIT EXHIBITION
Franco-British Exhibition at Shepherds Bush, London, symbolises the growing rapprochement between Britain and France Date: 1908

MICROSCOPE / ENC. BRIT
A selection of microscopes

Suspected Brit Smuggler
A British yachtsman suspected of rum-running throws an American customs man off his ship. Date: 1922

Tatler front cover - Sandra Paul - 1965
Front cover of The Tatler featuring the 1960s model, Sandra Paul, (now Sandra Howard, wife of politician and former leader of the Conservative party, Michael Howard)

Missal Vetus Oxemense. The Circumcision of Jesus. 12th-13th
Codex Missal Vetus Oxemense. Anonimous. 12th-13th centuries. Parchment. The Circumcision of Jesus. Spain

Brit Officer Ewart 1881
Officer (Colonel Henry P Ewart) Date: 1881

Short SC7 Skyvan -Brit Air Services

Pabo Post Prydain / Brit
Pabo Post Prydian, a North British ruler Date: flourished 520

Brit Expedition Climb
Members of the British Everest Expedition walk through an icy corridor

Brit Museum Elgin Room
The Elgin Room, housing the marbles and other treasures looted from Greece by Lord Elgin in 1812 and bought by the nation in 1816 for 35, 000 pounds

Eskimos Brit Columbia
People of Nootka Sound, British Columbia (Canada) in their home : cured fish hang from the roof and more are being smoked. Cook visited them in 1778

Reading Room Brit Museum
Construction of the great Reading Room of the British Museum, the forerunner of the British Library

Brit Fife & Drum Late 19
See the handsome bandsmen come, One with a fife and one with a drum !

Brit. Recruitment Poster
The Army of Today and Yesterday - Join the Army and See the World - Good pay - Fine Prospects - A Good Life

Zep Downed on Brit Coast
A massive Zeppelin explodes into flame over the English coast, much to the delight of watching locals

Brit Expedition Survey
Members of the British Everest Expedition survey the mountains

Brit Expedition Group
Members of the British Everest Expedition pose for a photograph; Bruce and Mallory stand on the left and middle, respectively

Military Dress / 19th Brit
British soldiers during the Sikh Wars (Her Majestys 32nd Regiment)

Alligator (Enc. Brit. )
The alligator feeds on fish and mammals but - unlike the crocodile - seldom attacks humans

Brit Mus Egyptian Room
Thanks to military and political activities in Egypt, the Egyptian Gallery is well stocked with statues and other artefacts acquired in the cause of culture

Brit Mus Arched Room
The Arched Room is part of the Museums collection of books, not yet hidden in the stacks, less still transferred to the British Library

Brit Mus Etruscan Room
They learnt Macaulays Horatius at school, so they know all about the Etruscans and can enjoy the Etruscan Room even if its mostly jars and pots

Brit Mus Coral Room
The new Coral Room : in 1881 visitors will have to traipse all the way to South Kensington to enjoy the natural history exhibits of the Museum

Brit Mus Kings Library
The Kings Library : the British Library is still a part of the Museum

Brit Mus Old Reading Rm
The old reading-room of the Museum, when the British Library is still part of the Museum, and before it is replaced by the great domed Reading Room

Brit Museum Greco-Roman
The newly-opened Greco-Roman Saloon, a rather formidable array of classical statuary

Brit Museum Ladys Seat
In the Reading Room there are seats reserved For Ladies Only

Brit Museum at Montagu H
Giraffes dominate the staircase at Montagu House, home of the Museum until it is demolished and replaced with Smirkes magnificent buildings from the 1820s to the 1850s

Brit Museum Zoo Gallery
The Great Zoological Gallery on Easter Monday is a popular attraction : in 1881 the natural history exhibits will be moved to South Kensington

Brit Museum Reading Rm
Readers in the Reading Room have access to one of the largest collections of books in the world

Brit Museum Constructed
Construction in progress of Smirkes magnificent new buildings to house the Museum, replacing Montagu House whose entrance is still standing at the time this was done

Brit Museum Stacks
The Book Stacks, whence books are retrieved for readers, one by one, and carried on a trolley to the Reading Room where readers await them in scholarly patience

Brit Museum Mammalia
The Mammalia Saloon : the natural history department will not be moved to South Kensington until 1881

British Museum Visitors
Visitors to the British Museum

Boer Bull & Brit Lion
CARTOON The Boer Bull, with the face of Paul Kruger, charges the British Lion

Curry&rice / Brit Station
A general view of a British station

Sinking of Brit Steamer
German representation of sinking of British merchant steamer Monkey

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