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British Identity at the V&A
The V&A museum's director picks six pieces that reveals something about British identity
The director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Tristram Hunt, chooses six key items in the museum's collection which tell us something about British identity.
He starts with a piece of heraldic art, depicting four creatures known as the Dacre Beasts made in the early 1500s, which once stood guard at Naworth Castle in Cumbria.
Series produced by Nicola Stanbridge.
(Image: the Dacre Dolphin, credit: Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
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