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Revolution 250: America's Independence Story

The American Revolution from the British side of the table, told in the government's own papers, with a Dunlap broadside of the Declaration of Independence printed on the night of 4 July 1776.

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At The National Archives.

Twenty years from the end of the Seven Years' War to the Treaty of Paris, in the maps, letters and reports that London was reading at the time: the Tea Act as Parliament passed it, the Olive Branch Petition with Jefferson's signature among the rest, a Mohawk land agreement, George Washington's letter accepting the surrender at Yorktown and an early map of the new republic with Liberty and her flag in the corner. The broadside of the Declaration is one of the first copies ever printed. The curators worked with the Onondaga and Mohawk nations and with Nova Scotia's Black Loyalist Heritage Centre, and the show gives the Indigenous peoples, the Black Loyalists and the enslaved the room the older histories did not. In the gallery on the ground floor, free, no booking.

Where
The National Archives, Bessant Drive, Kew, TW9 4DU
Nearest station
Kew Gardens · 7 min walk

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