200 years ago: expanding horizons, shrinking world
Heritage Floor, Central City Library, 44-46 Lorne Street, 15 August - 13 November 2005
October 2005 marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar between Britain and France. Special Collections at Auckland City Libraries celebrates Lord Nelson’s great sea victory with an exhibition showing letters written by Lord Nelson, his watch, and the seal given to him by his great love, Emma Hamilton.
The exhibition looks at the Napoleonic Wars in the context of what was happening in the rest of the world. Exploration and discovery, trade and settlement continued, often overshadowed by politics in Europe.
Mungo Park began his second, and fatal, trip into the interior of West Africa; Matthew Flinders circumnavigated Australia and Baltazard Solvyns published his collection of 250 coloured etchings “descriptive of the manners, customs and dresses” of the peoples of India. These are some of the highlights of the exhibition.
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