Transforming the Modern Era (1871-1899) Gallery
The items in this gallery represent the modernisation of industry and enlightenment principles that shaped the late 19th century.
Das Kapital
Wilde, Salomé
Memorial to the University of London signed by women doctors, June 1877 
Ceiling, 2 Gower St
Piece of mulberry tree from Shakespeare’s garden
Kelmscott Chaucer
Livre d’images parlantes
Richard Savage, The White Lady of K.
Photo of Rukhmabai
London: a pilgrimage / by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold
Aglaia: The Journal of the Healthy & Artistic Dress Union
Rechabite postcard, We will drink no wine
Bardell v. Pickwick. And, The Two Swindlers
Letter from Sophia De Morgan to Edwin Chadwick (1852)
Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde / Mary De Morgan, illustrated by Walter Crane (c1877-1880)
Professor Hoffmann, Modern magic: a practical treatise on the art of conjuring (1876)
Street Life in London by John Thomson, F.R.G.S., and Adolphe Smith, 1877
The Strand Magazine (1891)
Sketchbook by Charles Booth (1893)
Detail of a plan for the Ministry of Justice (1873)
Letter from H.H. Asquith to the University of London (1893)