Photography and the 1851 Great Exhibition

Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851

Barbara Morgan: Exhibition of Photography

The Cooking Animal: Economic Man at the Great Exhibition

WHEN CALLED UPON TO HOST a banquet celebrating the forthcoming Great Exhibition of 1851, the world’s first display of international industry, the Mayor of York turned to the period’s most renowned chef for the catering. The Frenchman Alexis Soyer, who had recently resigned from his position at the Reform Club in Pall Mall, had made a name for himself in Britain through a combination of extravag...

When Hiram Powers’ sculpture, The Greek Slave, debuted in Britain at The Great Exhibition of 1851, it caused quite a sensation

in Britain at The Great Exhibition of 1851, visitors were offered a series of Victorian obsessions with sensational results. The Greek girl, clutching onto a plinth shrouded in an oriental drapery, casts her eyes away from her Turkish master, who exists just off the stage of the dramatic scene; chains offer her only modesty. Her hands are tied, and the only promise appears to be that when the c...

The Hospital and Nursing Exhibition

On the first day a paper will be given by Mr. H. J. Waring, F.R.C.S., Vice-Chancellor of London University (Senior Surgeon, St. Bartholomew's Hospital) on "Voluntary Hospitals and Paying Patients." In the afternoon, Mr. J. E. Stone, F.S.A.A. (Accountant to St. Thomas's Hospital), will read a paper on " Accountancy in Relation to Hospital Administration." In the evening the Annual Dinner will be...