Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery contains a reconstruction of novelist George Eliot’s London drawing room of 1870 and many of her personal items as well as local history exhibitions.
The museum holds collections related to the borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth.
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The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London.
Gallery 22
Its gallery number 22 contains busts of a number of ancient Greek thinkers and writers who are part of the humanist tradition.
Socrates (469-399 BCE), whose freethinking scepticism brought him into conflict with authoritarian political forces of the day and led to his [...]
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As well as having some of the specimens Darwin collected, The Manchester Museum was opened by The University of Manchester (formerly Owens College), following advice from the scientist T.H. Huxley.
The Museum building was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (who also designed the Natural History Museum in London) and reflects Charles Darwin’s evolutionary principles.
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The Bishopsgate Institute is a cultural institute, housed in a Grade II* listed building housing in the City of London offering a range of activity: courses for adults, a regular cultural events programme, an historic library and hall and room hire.
Bishopsgate Library
Bishopsgate Library is an independent, charity-funded library located within the Bishopsgate Institute.
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The Freud Museum celebrates the life and work of Professor Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna Freud.
By the time Freud fled his native Vienna on the eve of World War Two he was known across the world as the father of psychoanalysis. The movement had long since fractured into numerous competing schools, but most accepted Freud’s [...]
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Nuneaton Library is important for its relation to the novelist George Eliot (real name Mary Anne Evans). Eliot was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire where the library is located.
Many items, including photos, over 60 facsimiles of letters from her friends and family and first editions of her work can be found in the library. These include:
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