Sell, eat, wear and frame Garibaldi,

Historical evidence can be provided by various sources. Victorians are remembered as history’s hoarders and their cultural habits are important for collectors and historians. In this chapter I will try to demonstrate how everyday objects – food, house decora- tions, clothes, pottery, pictures – can be used as proof of the political commitment of the British people to the nascent Italian State; a means of understanding how British people experienced the cause of Italian unification – the Risorgimento – and how they took part in it.