Pictures Dated 13th August 2008

The wedding of the Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, 1923. Artist: Unknown

The wedding of the Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, 1923. The bride and bridegroom and their parents. The Earl and Countess of Strathmore, the Duchess and Duke of York, and King George V and Queen Mary. A print from The Illustrated London News Wedding Number, 28th April 1923.

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Slavery accounts, 1698-1701 (1965). Artist: Unknown

Slavery accounts, 1698-1701 (1965). Accounts of the number of negroes delivered to the islands of Barbados, Jamaica and Antigua for the years 1698-1701. In 1698 the monopoly in the African trade was abolished. In 1708 the Royal African Company tried, without success, to regain it. The government took a ten per cent levy from the trade. Found in the Collection of the British Museum. A print from The Slave Trade and its Abolition, edited by John Langdon-Davies, Jonathan Cape, London, 1965.

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