A collaboration with BBC Radio 4 to mark Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

Progress
The Monarchy has contributed significantly to the prosperity of its people by its understanding and promotion of progress in the fields of art, science and industry.
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples (1455-1536)
French psalter
Matthew Boulton (1728-1809)
Pair of candelabra
Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
Tickertape
Central Press Photos Ltd. : 6-7 Gough Square, Fleet Street, London EC4
HM The Queen's Christmas Day broadcast
Dickinson : 114 New Bond Street (fl.1850s-1870s)
Dickinsons' Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851
Thomas Sprat (1635-1713)
The History of the Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge
British School, 16th century
The Embarkation of Henry VIII at Dover
Alexander Cumming (1733-1814)
Barometrical Clock
Eardley Norton (active 1760-92)
Astronomical clock
Eugene-Louis Lami (1800-90)
The opening of the Great Exhibition 1851
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Sir Henry Guildford (1489-1532)
Attributed to Vincenzo Leonardi (1589/90-1646)
European pelican
George III, King of the United Kingdom (1738-1820)
Design for a Corinthian Temple for Kew
Claude-Marie Ferrier (1811-89)
The Great Exhibition, 1851: Musical instruments by Sax
Claude-Marie Ferrier (1811-89)