Features 19 19th century
George Vulliamy designs on Victoria Embankment.
George Vulliamy was the designer of the iconic lamp posts and benches on the Victoria Embankment in London but what is his link to the Society of Women Artists?
Read MoreThe Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace once housed the identity of a nation but was destroyed by fire in 1936.
Read MoreBritain After Waterloo the British Disillusion
What happened to Britain after Waterloo? What did the victory mean to the population and why was there a British disillusion for the following 20 years? Britain seemed to implode as an economic bomb went off under her feet.
Read MoreDuke of Wellington Battle of Waterloo 1815
The Duke of Wellington stood at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, facing yet again Napoleon and the French army. He probably never thought he would have to face the Frenchman again after his victory in the Peninsular Campaign. The bloody battle left Wellington victorious
Read MoreBank of England History
Bank of England History next to the East India Company one of our oldest institutions and ironically as the old lady of Threadneedle Street one of the few ‘last men standing. Founded by an associate of Isaac Newton from Trinity College Cambridge days maybe not such a strange connection give Newton was Master of the Royal Mint. Rothschilds to the rescue, so many intriguing connections to an institution we think of as a steadying force. It was not always so. Find out more here…
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