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Hand drawn and illustrated map of Europe, North Africa and Asia. Seas are coloured in blue ink.
Slide is labelled "Brit Mus. Harley 7182 fol 59 Ptolemy coloured"

Hand drawn and illustrated map of Matthew Paris' journey in the 13th century from London to Apulia. This image is a single page detailing part of Italy.
Paris created a number of expanded road maps known as itineraries, which detail the routes…

John Norden (c. 1547 – 1625) was an English cartographer, working in Cornwall approx 1610.
The slide is labelled "Norden's Map: East Hundred. Plymouth and East Cornwall. WEST is at TOP"
The map includes the towns of Launceston, Liskeard and Looe.

Hand drawn and illustrated map showing Asia Minor,Arctic and Antarctica among several annotations.
Slide is titled Macrobian "Cotton" Zone Map of the tenth Century.
Language on the slide is in Latin.

Hand drawn and illustrated map of Dartmoor.
The spelling of place names is not modern English, but includes Brent Hill, Buckland and Tornwood Church

Double page ( pp 264 & 265) of text from "The Voyage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile Kt. Text describes a tree which bears fruit, which are baby lambs and illustrated on p 264. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, commonly known as Mandeville's…

Photograph showing both sides of silver circular plate showing the course taken by Francis Drake in 1577 - 1580.
Each side shows a different hemisphere of the world and hid voyage is shown by a dotted line.
Original is in the British Museum.
Slide…

Double page (pp 92 & 93) from "The Voyage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt."
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, commonly known as Mandeville's Travels, is a book written between 1357 and 1371 that purports to be the travel memoir of an…

Hand drawn and ancient , decorative mappa mundi.
Label on slide reads " British Museum Maps 29.b.4
ST SEVER"
Also known as the Beatus map from the Saint-Sever Beatus, produced in Saint-Sever Abbey, France in the 9th century. The map is faced…

Hand drawn illustrated map in circular form.
It is annotated with lots of detail and information.
Label on slide reads "British Museum. Maps 184 d. 2 BORGIAN MAP"
The Borgia Map is an ancient mappa mundi, or world map, thought to have been made…

Image is from a book. Four monsters are illustrated across a double page, with text in foreign language around.
Lantern slide label Staes "British Museum Monsters. COT.DIS TIB.B.V. PR.1. fol 82."

Black cat sitting on a sunny window sill with a ball of wool.
Same occasion as MG.413 - 416

Cat and kitten on sunny window sill

Kittens are playing on a sunny window sill with a small metal handbell

Two small black kittens playing on a sunny window sill.
One is patting a small metal handbell.

Woman seated, wearing coat and carrying thick sheepskin gloves.
Sheet background, possibly a passport photograph

Young woman in tartan skirt seated by lamp

The two young women are wearing jackets with the one on the left having a crucifix necklace. The young girl is in the middle.

Two girls, potentially sisters, with ribbons in their hair and smiling.

A married woman sitting next to a lamp and wearing a knitted jumper