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Insurance certificate for part of Montagu House

The Trustees of The British Museum bought Montagu House in 1…
Invitation to a private view of the Round Reading Room

By the early 1850s the British Museum Library badly needed a…
Jacob Richter (Lenin): signatures of readers for the British Museum Reading Room

The real name of the architect of the 1917 Russian Revolutio…
James Simon, The North Front of Montagu House and Gardens, an engraving

Montagu House in Bloomsbury was rebuilt for Ralph Montagu fo…
Letter relating to the evacuation of the British Museum's collections during the Second World War

While the Museum's collections of books, manuscripts, prints…
Memorial from the National Sunday League on the Sunday opening of the British Museum

For more than a century the British Museum has opened on Sun…
Notes on the application of Henry Hook, V.C., for a post as a labourer at The British Museum

The man whose name appears on this document could not fill i…
One of the King Edward VII Galleries under construction, a photograph

The King Edward VII's Galleries were built between 1906 and …
Plans of Montagu House by Henry Flitcroft

In 1725 the architect Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769) was asked …
Poster advertising the sale of building materials

Between 1823 and 1852 the new British Museum building design…
Robert Smirke, South Elevation of the North Wing, a drawing

The North Wing was designed by Sir Robert Smirke (1780-1867)…
Roger Fenton, The Discus-thrower (discobolos), a photograph

In this unusual photograph by Roger Fenton we see a famous R…
Roger Fenton, The Mineral Gallery, a photograph

In 1857 the Mineral collection of The British Museum was dis…
Roger Fenton, The South Front, a photograph

For many people, Sir Robert Smirke's massive nineteenth-cent…
Roger Fenton, The Third Graeco-Roman Saloon on Artists' Day, a photograph

This photograph by Roger Fenton (1819-1869), the famous Vict…
Sir Hans Sloane, an engraving from a portrait by T. Murray

Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was the founder of The British M…
Sir Robert Smirke, Design for showcases for The British Museum

As the present-day Museum building was erected, between the …
Sir Robert Smirke, Seat proposed for the Gallery of Antiquities, a drawing

The architect Robert Smirke was a follower of the Greek Revi…
Sir Robert Smirke, The South Wing, a drawing

By 1841 the East Wing, North Wing and half of the West Wing …
Sutton Nicholls, Montagu House, an engraving

Montagu House, the first home of The British Museum, was bui…
Teaching from the Collections, an engraving

The Clore Centre for Education follows a long association wi…
The Arched Room in The British Museum, a coloured engraving

The Arched Room in The British Museum was built between 1837…
The British Museum Act of 1753 (26 Geo. II cap. XXII)

Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) owned huge collections of books,…
The British Museum Security Staff, by an unknown photographer

Here we see The British Museum Security staff photographed o…
The Eastern Zoological Gallery in the East Wing of The British Museum, a coloured engraving

The two-storey East Wing of The British Museum was designed …
The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery on the introduction of the electric light, an engraving

Until the late nineteenth century The British Museum was lit…
The Entrance Gates to The British Museum, an engraving

For almost 150 years the front of The British Museum has bee…
The Grand Saloon and the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery, an engraving

The engraving shows the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery soon afte…
The Long Room of The British Museum, an engraving

In 1845 it was decided to build a long, single-storey galler…
The Main Entrance Hall, a photograph

The Main Entrance Hall has seen many changes since it opened…
The Main Entrance Hall and Staircase, a print

The Main Entrance Hall and Grand Staircase of the British Mu…
The Prints and Drawings Students' Room, a photograph

In 1914 the Department of Prints and Drawings moved from the…
The Royal Opening of King Edward VII's Galleries, various photographs

In 1907 King Edward VII laid the foundation stone to a large…
The sixth Reading Room of The British Museum, an engraving

The British Museum held library collections from 1753 until …
Ticket of admission to the gardens of Montagu House

The Trustees of the British Museum bought Montagu House in 1…
Title deed of the 'perimeter properties' of The British Museum

By the last years of the nineteenth century, The British Mus…
Tom and Bob in search of the Antique, an anonymous cartoon

In the early nineteenth century, two important collections o…
William Lake Price, The Reading Room under construction, a photograph

In 1854, work began on the construction of a new domed Readi…
William Lake Price, The Reading Room under construction, a photograph

Sir Robert Smirke (1781-1867) designed The British Museum bu…
William Sievier, British Museum Porter, at the gate of Montagu House, a lithograph

The gate of Montagu House was in fact a doorway opening off …
Brass advertising token issued by John Kirk

In Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries manufa…
Brass anti-slavery medal

Although slavery was a widely established practice in the Br…
Bronze medal of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, by Benedetto Pistrucci

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), was t…
Bronze medal of William Stukeley and Stonehenge

The Revd Dr William Stukeley (1687-1765), a keen antiquary ,…
Carlisle City and District Banking Company, £5 note

This panorama gives a multi-faceted view of nineteenth-centu…
Cast and chased gold medal of Elizabeth I, by Nicholas Hilliard

The portrait miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) appea…
Cast bronze medal of Charles Darwin by Alphonse Legros

Alphonse Legros (1837-1911) was a French painter who lived i…
Cast gold medal of King Charles I, by Nicolas Briot: the Dominion of the Seas

When Charles I (reigned 1625-49) inherited the English thron…
Cast silver gilt medal of King Charles I by Thomas Rawlins

During the English Civil War (1642-51) both the Parliamentar…
Cheque of Barclay's Bank

This simple unissued cheque tells part of the history of a w…
Coins deposited in the Court of Chancery, in the case 'Jones v. Lloyd'

These coins entered the English legal system as suitors' fun…
Copper advertising token for John Thornley, tea merchant

Throughout the nineteenth century, advertising was used by B…
Copper halfpenny token of John Morse

Token small change made of copper was first introduced to En…
Cumberland and Carlisle Bank £5 note

Today banknote manufacture is a specialized branch of securi…
Dartmouth, £1 note

This note was issued by Benjamin Tanner, a shipbuilder. War …
Didcot hoard

Hoards of Roman coins are quite common in Britain - over 120…
Gilt bronze medal of George IV by Benedetto Pistrucci

The Regency style, a type of design based on the architectur…
Gold coin in the name of Tincomarus

In the later first century BC, the rulers of southern Englan…
Gold coins and ingots from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo

One of the most famous groups of objects in the British Muse…
Gold imitation dinar of Offa

This unique gold coin of Offa, king of Mercia, is one of the…
Gold mancus of Coenwulf

This gold coin of Coenwulf, king of Mercia (796-821), is uni…
Gold mancus of Ethelred II

Of the few Anglo-Saxon gold coins that have survived from th…
Gold solidus of Magnus Maximus

Magnus Maximus (ruled AD 383-8) a military commander in Roma…
Gold sovereign of George III

In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars (from about 1799 to …
Handwritten cheque for an account with Abraham Fowler, goldsmith

By the late seventeenth century legal clerks, merchants and …
Lead weight with coin of Ethelred I

Large numbers of lead weights have survived from the Viking …
Natasha Ratcliffe, The Black Spot, cast bronze medal

This medal, entitled The Black Spot , comments on both the a…
'Not in my Name' anti-war badge

This badge is one of 200,000 produced by the firm Better Bad…

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