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Cabinet - Sources

Spoon of reindeer antler
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Woman and child
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Religion: Luther and the Reformation, 1517
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Letter from John Wordsworth to his father Revd Wordsworth
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T23: Silver 1/32 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Poster "Educate the children to work"
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Week 2: Sites and Sources
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Execution of Levellers, Gloucester Green, 1649
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'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' manuscript (17th century)
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Instrumenti eiusdem ut Altitudinibus Capiendis
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Family of Sigismund I Jagiellon, c. 1565
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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Joan's Short Story
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Ribeiro planisphere of 1529
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The four terrestrial elements
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The Houses of Tradescant and Ashmole, South Lambeth
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Entrance Book (3D)
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Clone of Instruments for Dissection
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Balagan (Central Asia)
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The Achaemenids in the Shahnameh
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Inscribed oracle bones, 12th century BCE
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Richard of Wallingford's Astronomical Clock
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Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
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