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- Archives Exhibitions
- Constantin Silvestri
- The David Clarke Collection
- F. D. Maurice - a life at King's
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Espionage during the Cold War
- From Microbes to Matrons
- Shakespeare in the archives at King's
- On the Veldt: The British Army in South Africa 1899-1902
- South Africa in the nineteenth century
- Declaration of War 1899
- Arrival in South Africa
- On campaign
- The heat of battle
- Climate and landscape
- Peace: the Treaty of Vereeniging 1902
- The pioneering work of Professor Jean Hanson, 1919-1973
- The Gallipoli campaign
- Coming to London
- In the Beginning ...
- On Afghanistan's plains
- Armies Abroad: Britain in Somaliland
- Feast, famine and physiology
- The Transforming technology of war
- Line and Form
- Professor Sir Charles Wheatstone
- Faster & fairer - science & sport at King's College London
- The Duke of Wellington
- From Empire to Nationhood
- The Cartoon in Wartime Propaganda
- Mayhem in the Metropolis
- 'A daughter of the Empire': Beryl White In India 1901-03
- DNA: the King's story
- The Mond Bequest at King's College London: A Celebration
- King’s and the Blitz, September 1940
- Images of Lord Lister
- The birth of modern dentistry
- A pioneering partnership: Aubrey & Hilda Lewis
- Student days
- Chelsea College
- Queen Elizabeth College
- Stories of Strand-Aldwych
- Home
- Special Collections Exhibitions
- Sleeping Beauty and Mother Bunch: female figures in 18th century chapbooks
- Hidden voices of Empire
- Voyage to Madagascar: Thomas Locke Lewis and the Anglo-Merina Treaty of 1817
- Representing the unfamiliar: Photography in the British Empire 1866-1938
- The printed page
- Incunabula
- Parkinson of the disease
- Revolution!
- Young's Essay on Tobago
- Background information
- Gallery and transcription
- Introducing the Essay
- Natural resources of the island
- Tobago's relative position
- The Commercial & political importance of the island of Tobago
- The Commercial & political importance of the island, continued
- Port of enterprize and command, page 29
- Orinoco River, page 30
- Appeal to British merchants, page 31
- Historical political instability of the island, page 32
- The reach of the Orinoco River, page 33
- Potential trade agreements with Spain, page 34
- Further trade routes with South America, page 35
- Establishing the port of Courland, page 36
- Prospects of national advantage, page 37
- Conclusions
- Military significance of Man o' war Bay, page 38
- Further significances, page 39
- Military consensus, page 40
- French intentions for the island, page 41
- Suitability as a port for ships of war, page 42
- Relative safety of the island, page 43
- The necessity to prepare for conflict, page 44
- Revelations of an inside source, page 45
- Fas est, et ab hoste doceri, page 46
- Select bibliography
- 'The very age and body of the time': Shakespeare's world
- ‘To try their fortune there': from the town to the city
- 'A plot against my life, my crown': religion and politics
- 'Though thou write with a goose-pen': the tools of writing
- 'All this I speak in print': the London book trade
- 'A fine volley of words': language in Shakespeare's time
- 'What revels are at hand?': Shakespeare's literary contemporaries
- 'Dressing old words new': Shakespeare's literary sources
- 'Give physick to the sick, ease to the pained': medicine in Shakespeare's time
- 'Not of an age, but for all time': Shakespeare and King's College London
- Select bibliography
- West of Suez: Britain and the Mediterranean, 1704-1967
- The nearest run thing you ever saw: the Battle of Waterloo
- The great leveller: humanity's struggle against infectious disease
- Fruits of the earth: plants in the service of mankind
- From woodcut to photograph: techniques of book illustration
- Imperial designs: technology and empire in the 19th century
- Ploughing the sea: Latin America observed
- The Ethiopic Psalter of 1513
- Learning from Lister
- Byron & politics: ‘born for opposition’
- Acknowledgements & foreword
- Introduction
- Introduction
- 1. Manuscript of Byron’s ‘Detached Thoughts’, number 84
- 2. Manuscript copy of Byron’s ‘Detached Thoughts’, annotated by Sir Walter Scott, 1825
- 3. Letter from Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 27 February 1808
- 4. Thomas Medwin's Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron
- 5. John Cam Hobhouse's Journey through Albania
- Britannia: Parliament, party & the Prince
- Introduction to: Britannia: Parliament, party & the Prince
- 6. Byron’s draft parliamentary speech on Roman Catholic emancipation, 1812
- 7. Letter of Lord Sligo to Byron, 20 February 1812
- 8. The Parliamentary Speeches of Lord Byron
- 9. Byron’s manuscript of ‘Note to the annexed stanzas on Brougham’, 7 December 1818
- 10. Letter from Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813
- 11. Byron’s ‘Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill,’ Morning Chronicle, 2 March 1812
- 12. Manuscript of Byron’s ‘Lines to a Lady Weeping,’ 1812
- 13. Letter from Byron to John Murray II, 22 January 1814
- 14. ‘Song for the Luddites’
- 15. King’s Colledge [sic] to wit: a practical essay
- Napoleon: Emperor, expectation & exile
- Introduction to: Napoleon: Emperor, expectation & exile
- 16. & 17. Byron’s collection of Waterloo spoils (objects and livret)
- 18. Manuscript of Byron’s additional stanzas to ‘Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte,’ 1814
- 19. Letter from Byron to John Murray II, 10 April 1814
- 20. Don Juan, Canto IX, stanza 4
- 21. Byron’s ‘Ode to Napoleon’ in The Examiner
- 22. Bill for a Napoleonic snuff box, 7 November 1818
- 23. Letter from Byron to John Murray II, 4 December 1821
- 24. Manuscript of Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto III, stanzas 19-21
- 25. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the third. London: John Murray, 1816
- 26. ‘On the Star of “The Legion of Honour” (From the French)’, 1815
- 27. Poems on Napoleon
- 28. Letter from Byron to John Murray II, 22 January 1814
- 29. Manuscript of Byron’s ‘From the French,’ stanzas 3-5, in the hand of Augusta Leigh with annotations by Byron, 1815
- Italy: politics, patriotism & plays
- Introduction to: Italy: politics, patriotism & plays
- 30. Marino Faliero, fragmentary proof for the first edition, 1820, corrected by Byron
- 31. & 32. Playbill for a performance of Marino Faliero, 1821, with accompanying letter defending the performance
- 33. Public notice about a performance of Byron’s Doge of Venice, 1821
- 34. Letter from Byron to John Murray II, 28-9 September 1820
- 35. & 36. Letters from Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 26 April and 12 October 1821
- 37. The Two Foscari. An historical tragedy
- 38. Notes in Italian, in an unknown hand, used by Byron for Marino Faliero
- 39. ‘Foscari’ by John Rogers Herbert
- 40. Pencil and watercolour sketch of Byron at Genoa, attributed to Count Alfred D’Orsay, April or May 1823
- 41. Byron’s swordstick
- Greece: Hellenism & heroism
- Introduction to: Greece: Hellenism & heroism
- 42. Sculpted portrait bust medallion of Byron in Albanian dress by Nikolaos Kotziamanis, 1992, after Thomas Phillips’ portrait, 1813
- 43. Letter to Byron from the London Greek Committee, 8 March 1823
- 44. Letter of Metropolitan Ignatios to Mavrokordatos, in Greek, introducing Lord Byron, 1823
- 45. Manuscript of ‘On This Day I Complete My Thirty- Sixth Year’, in Byron’s Cephalonia Journal, 1824
- 46. Commission giving Lord Byron charge of a group of artillery signed by Alexandros Mavrokordatos
- 47. 'View of Albanian palikars in pursuit of an enemy'
- 48. Part of a letter or memorandum from Mavrokordatos to Byron, in French, 21 or 22 March 1824
- 49. William Parry's The Last Days of Lord Byron
- 50. Leicester Stanhope's Greece, in 1823 and 1824
- 51. Divers sièges de Missolonghi
- 52. Translation of the funeral oration delivered in Greek by M Spiridon Tricoupi ... in honour of the late Lord Byron
- 53. Byron’s War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution by Roderick Beaton
- Editions used as sources
- Dickens, Scrooge and the Victorian poor
- Charles Dickens: a writing lifetime
- ‘A brighter Hellas’: rediscovering Greece in the 19th century
- 'To make a good one better': translating the Bible
- The first English Bible
- The Elizabethan Bible
- The King James Bible
- Luther and the German Bible
- The European Bible
- The Missionary Bible
- The English Bible after King James
- The Saint John's Bible
- 'The seeds of learning, virtue and religion': Biblical scholarship at King's College London
- Select bibliography
- ‘The paradise of the world’: conflict and society in the Caribbean
- To scrutinize the whole of Nature: The Royal Society and its fellows 1660-1730
- Nightingale and hospital design
- Florence Nightingale and hospital design
- Arnott's On Warming and Ventilating
- Notes on hospitals
- St Thomas's Act
- The Herbert Hospital
- The founding of St Thomas's
- Cameron's lectures on the preservation of health
- Galton on the construction of hospitals
- St Thomas's Hospital
- A treatise on hygiene and public health
- Bibliography
- Mind Matters: neuroscience and psychiatry
- I speak of Africa
- John Eliot's Genesis of 1655
- Highlights of the FCDO periodicals collection
- Conferences & Seminars