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Portrait of Queen Victoria, by Forestier, 1897

Queen Victoria as a young woman, by F.W. Wilkin

King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.

Henry VIII, 1540, by Holbein

Queen Victoria surrounded by her family.

Exhibition: Medicine under three Queens; Elizabeth, Anne and Victoria.

Portrait of Queen Victoria, by D.J. Pound

Portrait of Princess Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise

King George IV and entourage laden with provisions, about to embark from Brighton in the Royal Yacht; representing the extravagant monarch's distressed retreat from England at the time of the Queen's trial. Coloured etching by R. Cruikshank, 1820.

Common sense; addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects, viz. I. Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English Constitution. II. Of monarchy and hereditary succession. III. Thoughts on the presen state of American affairs. IV. Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflections. To which is added, an appendix. [Two lines from Thomson]

Rights of man. Part the second. Combining principle and practice. By Thomas Paine, secretary for foreign affairs to Congress in the American war, and author of the work entitled common sense; and the first part of the rights of man.

Common sense; addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects. ... A new edition, with several additions ... To which is added an appendix, together with an address to the people called Quakers. ...

Common sense; addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects: I. Of the Origin and Design of Government in general, with concise Remarks on the English Constitution. II. Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession. III. Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs. IV. Of the present Ability of America, with some miscellaneous Reflections. A new edition, with several additions in the Body of the Work. To which is added, an appendix; together with an address to the people called Quakers. N. B. The New Edition here given increases the Work upwards of One-Third. By Thomas Paine, Secretary to the Committee for Foreign Affairs to Congress, during the American War, and Author of The Rights of Man, and a Letter to the Abbe Raynal.

A letter to a friend: with Two poems sacred to the Memory of the late R. R. Dr. Thomas Rattray of Craighall, Bishop of Edinburgh.

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Rights of man. Part the second. Combining principle and practice. By Thomas Paine, secretary for foreign affairs to Congress in the American war, and author of the work entitled common sense; and the first part of the rights of man.

Common sense; addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects. ... A new edition, with several additions ... To which is added an appendix, together with an address to the people called Quakers. ...

A letter to a friend: with Two poems sacred to the Memory of the late R. R. Dr. Thomas Rattray of Craighall, Bishop of Edinburgh.