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Herman Moll's The World Described (1720): Mapping Britain's Global and Imperial Interests
Herman Moll's The World Described (1720), the pre-eminent folio atlas of Hanoverian Britain, departs from the usual Ortelian model in the selection and ordering of its contents. It placed Britain at the centre of the atlas so that the first half…
Heraldic panel. A large square dark wooden panel, about a metre wide, carved with a coat of arms containing a lion, held aloft by two chained unicorns with crowns around their necks. Above the coat of arms is a knight's helmet with a crown, and a lion holding a sword and flag on top. The background is filled with oak leaves.
Plaque, heraldic panel, with the arms of James V and initials of William Rolland, moneyer in Aberdeen.
Inscription: IN MY DEFENS VR
Inscription: IN MY DEFENS VR
Hemlock
Several fruits. Label in box: 'Conii Fruct. POISON. The British Drug Houses, Ltd. Manufacturing Chemists. London.'
helmet armour
Collected during the Lhasa Expedition 1903/4.
helmet
Helmet, composed of chain armour and decorated with leather bands. One of two collected from Central Sudan and listed together in the museum's slip catalogue.
helmet
Shirt and helmet of chain armour - The armour and weapons of West African kingdoms and Sudanic states were very like those used during the Middle Ages and provided little protection from the rifles and machine guns of the colonial powers. The cluster…