Tag Archive: 0Great Exhibition of 1851

No catalogue on Anglo-German cultural relations would be complete without at least one mention of Prince Albert and the Great Exhibition. One of our favourite things in the catalogue is item 191, a very rare and attractive Great Exhibition souvenir. Taking inspiration from the popular nursery rhyme ‘The House that Jack built’, the large cotton […]

This rather charming book, from 1857, is the first edition of the comic autobiography of a Scottish ‘packman’, or commercial traveller, whose travels around the British Isles include a sighting of Queen Victoria at Braemar Castle, and a visit to the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London.  The author was born in 1819, in very […]