Work basket or knitting basket of straw and cotton string: British, Orkney

Cotton dress in an abstract multicoloured print, with a label reading LIBERTY & C LTD / REGENT ST, LONDON / 36

Cream cotton handkerchief printed with pictures of George V and other monarchs, politicians and military leaders of the allied nations, marked 'A Souvenir of the Great War'

Woman's hooped bustle or crinolette, in cotton with a narrow black and white stripe, fastening at centre front waist with front panel cut away towards back, centre back with internal metal hoops forming a tube, adjusted by internal lacing and ties: British, c. 1870

Woman's dress, in yellow cotton printed in dark brown with an abstract design formed from clusters of rectangular shapes with small rectangular dashes between, with low wide neckline trimmed with pleats, full-length sleeves, fitted bodice and full ankle length skirt pleated into waist, lined with cotton, part of an ensemble with matching shoulder cape H.NAA 3.2: probably British, c. 1830

Bodice of a woman's dress, in brown and blue shot silk, with a high round neckline, fastening centre front with seven blue and gold buttons, fitted with skirted section extending over the hip,a flat frill around front and back in the form of a shoulder cape, full-length sleeves, frill, hem and cuffs trimmed with grey-brown silk fringe, lined with cotton, part of an ensemble with H.TM 142 B: British, c. 1860 - 1863

Hard tartan kilt decorated with silk rosettes and matching pink silk ribbon ties, part of a man's kilt suit c.1820

Hard tartan waistcoat lined with white cotton and backed with black cotton, part of a kilt suit once belonging to Andrew Clark c. 1815 - 1820

Man's double-breasted frock coat of fine black cloth, partly lined with cotton: British, c.1840

Pair of man's trousers in black wool cloth, part of an evening suit H.TI 23 A-C, high waistline, shaped with a notch at centre back and with black buttons for attaching braces, side of legs trimmed with a narrow vertical band of black silk (?), with in-seam pockets at each side, and jet pocket with single button fastening at wearer's back right, made by Marshall and Aitken, Edinburgh for Mr J.R. Jamieson

Large cotton floor covering of Indian origin, said to have belonged to Nana Govind Dondu Pant (Nana Sahib), taken from his tent by Colonel Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitken, Bengal Staff Corps, in the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny/Uprising (1857-1858)

Cotton base of a filament, one of set of specimens illustrating manufacture of incandescent electric lamps, by Edison and Swan Electric Light Co., c. 1900

Telegraph cable

Replica of clinical thermometer, frog-shaped of glass with liquid and coloured beads inside, original by the Accademia del Cimento of Florence in 17th century, replica made 20th century

Rectangular button blanket of blue wool with deep red borders and black stripes, with a double-headed bird motif: Canadian, British Columbia, Northwest Coast, late 19th century

Processional Suffragette banner, double-sided with three white compartments edged with red ribbon on a black background, for the Northern Men's Federation of Women's Suffrage, Edinburgh: by Maude Arncliffe-Sennet of the Suffrage Atelier, 1914