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Three Indian domestic servants at work, 1870s. Creator: Willoughby Wallace Hooper.
 
Indian servant and master, 1870s. Creator: Willoughby Wallace Hooper.
 
Sinbad the Sailor, 1896.  Creator: William Strang.
 
Trial of Mary, Queen of Scots in the Great Chamber at Fotheringhay castle, Oct 1586. Creator: Robert Beale.
 
The burning of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1563. Creator: Unknown.
 
Opening of the Budget; or John Bull giving his breeches to save his bacon, 1818. Creator: James Gillray.
 
Aroudj, (Barberousse 1er), 1837.  Creator: Charles Etienne Pierre Motte.
 
The departure of the Romans, 14th century.  Creator: Unknown.
 
Irish harp player and text, after c1170. Creator: Unknown.
 
Benefactors placing records of their gifts on the altar of Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire, c1210.  Creator: Unknown.
 
Man dying of the plague, 14th-15th century. Creator: Unknown.
 
Family tree of King Henry VIII and his six wives, second half of the 16th century. Creator: Unknown.
 
Page from the diary of John Manningham, 1602. Creator: John Manningham.
 
Map of the British Colonies in North America, c1770-c1783. Creator: John Mitchell.
 
Lenin's letter applying for a ticket to the British Museum's Reading Room, 21 April 1902.  Creator: Vladimir Ilich Lenin.
 
Record of Karl Marx's ticket for the reading room of the British Museum, 1857. Creator: Unknown.
 
Scott's last letter from the Antarctic, 1912. Creator: Robert Falcon Scott.
 
Opening page of a letter from Gandhi to Sir Richard Tottenham, 1943. Creator: Mohandas Gandhi.
 
Second page of a letter from Gandhi to Sir Richard Tottenham, 1943. Creator: Mohandas Gandhi.
 
Final page of a letter from Gandhi to Sir Richard Tottenham, 1943. Creator: Mohandas Gandhi.
 
Cover of a Latvian translation of George Orwell's "Animal Farm", 1954. Creator: Unknown.
 
Order proclaiming Oliver Cromwell as Protector of England, 1653. Creator: Unknown.
 
Copy of letters confirming the truce between Henry III of England and Louis IX of France, 1258. Creator: Unknown.
 
A banner of the parliamentary army, English Civil War, c1642-c1646. Creator: Unknown.
 
Musical canon with Tudor rose, c1509-c1547. Creator: Unknown.
 
Elgar's sketch of his 'Pomp and Circumstance March no 1', 1901. Creator: Edward Elgar.
 
A Dirge, page from Queen Victoria's Album Consolatium, 16 December, 1861.  Creator: Unknown.
 
Letter from Florence Nightingale, c1854-c1856. Creator: Florence Nightingale.
 
List of purchases of slaves by the ship Mangovo George, West Africa, 1785. Creator: Unknown.
 
Industrial landscape drawn by Chartist leader Ernest Jones, c1848-c1850. Creator: Ernest Jones.
 
George Orwell's application papers to join the Burma Police, 1922. Creator: Unknown.
 
Earl Haig's Order of the Day, 11 April 1918.  Creator: Sir Douglas Haig.
 
'Dulce et Decorum Est', poem by Wilfred Owen, 1918. Creator: Wilfred Owen.
 
The cover of The South Polar Times, 1911. Creator: Unknown.
 
The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1587. Creator: Robert Beale.
 
Robert Clive receiving the land revenues of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, 1765, (early 19th century). Creator: Benjamin West.
 
"The Adventure of the Missing Three Quarter", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, c1904. Creator: Arthur Conan Doyle.
 
Design for a great seal for King Charles II, 1662. Creator: Thomas Simon.
 
Anthony Trollope, writer, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Lord John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland, 1878.   Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Sir Richard Redgrave, landscape painter, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
William Edward Forster MP, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Joseph Durham, sculptor, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Edward Matthew Ward, historical painter, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Frederick Goodall, painter, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
James Fraser, Bishop of Manchester, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Thomas Webster, painter, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Goldwin Smith, Professor, 1878.  Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Henry Tamworth Wells, portrait-painter, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Richard Owen, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Frederick Max Muller, Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford University, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
George Edmund Street, architect, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Lord Napier of Magdala, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
William Calder Marshall, sculptor, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Charles Old Goodford, Provost of Eton College, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
John Stainer, organist of St Paul's Cathedral, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Edward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Sir John Mellor, judge of the High Court of Justice, 1880. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
John Hall Gladstone, President of the Chemical Society, 1880. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Reverend Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Bishop Designate of Durham, 1880. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.