Dawn of a new Century (1900-1913) Gallery
The beginning of the twentieth century saw a huge amount of change with the advancement of women's rights and increasing social mobility, the items in this gallery show the changing perceptions of the time...
Votes for Women
Miniature editions of Dickens
Beware! A Warning to Suffragists
Map of London and key
Type blocks, Bacon is Shakespeare
La belle dame sans merci
Scrapbook of Edwardian play programmes
Letter from W.B. Yeats to Florence Farr (1909)
My Life in Dancing
Manuscript of Rabindranath Tagore’s Crescent Moon with annotations by Thomas Sturge Moore, 1913
Thèses présentées a la faculté des sciences de Paris, by Marie Curie (1903)
Stenographen-Fibel, by Gustav Richter (1912)
The Green Room Book, and Who’s Who on the Stage (1908)
Foxwell invoices (MS1228)
The Imperial Institute, by William Monk (1909)
How to Cook a Simple Meal, by Marguerite Fedden (1912)
Testimonial to Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence Bart. 1895-1905
The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare (1912)