In a spectacular temporary exhibition building in Hyde Park more than 100,000 exhibits were put on display. On May 1 1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition. By the time it closed on ...

Our efforts in 1851 were ridiculously weak; our own exhibition, up at Forty-second-street, was, on the whole, worse; and now, if in war times, such magnificent promises, as indexed by the ...

The Crystal Palace was a huge exhibition building constructed in London's Hyde Park between 1850 and 1851. It hosted the ...

With a sense of urgency to adapt a reluctant nation to technological modernization and increasing international competition, he organized and oversaw the enthralling Great Exhibition of 1851 ...

The design of the glass structure was approved in 1850 and constructed in time for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Prof John Gardner of Anglia Ruskin University and his team examined how what was ...

Round-arm bowling eventually caused wicket-keepers to wear protective clothing; wicket-keeping pads and gloves were displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851. One of the first gloved and padded ...

trades and industries since the Great Exhibition of 1851. Over 6 million visitors came to view the wares of more than 28,000 exhibitors from Britain, her empire and beyond. Featuring explanatory notes ...

A new exhibition hosted in London’s Lightroom draws on Vogue archives to examine the development of the fashion show, from ...

an overhead railway and 800 specially commissioned exhibits It was meant to be an event to rival Crystal Palace's 1851 Great Exhibition. In the summer of 1896, Cardiff launched the "Fine Arts ...

Four London councils will be handed control over the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park later this year. For 12 years, the London ...