Citizens or residents of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, British Overseas Territories, Crown Dependencies, and their descendants

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Mourning brooche showing a graveyard scene.

Mourning brooches containing the hair of a deceased relative.

A finger-wound being attacked by germs represented by German soldiers in World War II. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1940.

Tobacco: an Irishman, a Scot and an English sailor smoke, take snuff and chew respectively. Coloured aquatint by Hunt, c. 1833, after W. Summers after C. J. Grant.

Tabloid medicine chest used on 1933 Mount Everest Expedition

Mourning brooche containing the hair of a deceased relative.

Mourning brooch containing the hair of a deceased relative.

Chinese men and women join British army staff in an evening feast. Lithograph, ca. 1840/1850.

The origins of the British : a genetic detective story / Stephen Oppenheimer.

Race problems in the new Africa : a study of the relation of Bantu and Britons in those parts of Bantu Africa which are under British control / the Rev. W. C. Willoughby.

Médecins britanniques au Brésil / D.G. de Freitas.

Selections from Calcutta gazettes : showing the political and social condition of the English in India / by W.S. Seton-Karr.

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Images referencing British

Works from the collections

The origins of the British : a genetic detective story / Stephen Oppenheimer.

Mourning brooche showing a graveyard scene.

Race problems in the new Africa : a study of the relation of Bantu and Britons in those parts of Bantu Africa which are under British control / the Rev. W. C. Willoughby.

Médecins britanniques au Brésil / D.G. de Freitas.

Selections from Calcutta gazettes : showing the political and social condition of the English in India / by W.S. Seton-Karr.

British

Images from the collections

Images referencing British

Works from the collections

The origins of the British : a genetic detective story / Stephen Oppenheimer.

Mourning brooche showing a graveyard scene.

Race problems in the new Africa : a study of the relation of Bantu and Britons in those parts of Bantu Africa which are under British control / the Rev. W. C. Willoughby.

Médecins britanniques au Brésil / D.G. de Freitas.

Selections from Calcutta gazettes : showing the political and social condition of the English in India / by W.S. Seton-Karr.

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