British Culture Gallery

The First Fleet

Some of the First Fleet - eleven British Navy ships under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip, which took 750 British convicts to Botany Bay, where they established the first European settlement in Australia, 1788. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Cover of "Standard of Empire"

Jingoistic cover of the "Standard of Empire" Annual for 1912 - 1913 showing Britannia in a chariot drawn by the British lion, against a background of scenes of the Empire including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada

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First Parliamentary Labour (Socialist) Party gathered

The first Parliamentary Labour (Socialist) Party gathered on the terrace of the House of Commons, London, 1906. Ramsay Macdonald is seated third from the left, then Arthur Henderson and next to him, Keir Hardie

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