25 December 1851 saw four tonnes of cooked meat donated ... Imperial ingenuity had attracted millions of visitors to the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park. Prince Albert and his chums had mustered ...

Cartwright Hall was built on the site of Manningham Hall, the home of Lord Masham - formerly Samuel Cunliffe Lister - who built Manningham Mills. In 1870 the multi-millionaire sold the grounds to ...

Historically, Crown Paints’ original factory supported Scott’s expedition to the Antarctic and it exhibited in the Crystal Palace of the Great Exhibition of 1851, at a time when its paints ...

Architect Nicholas Grimshaw's ingenious telescopic glass and steel superstructure — inspired by Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace of 1851 — was a suitably contemporary monument to the new railway ...

1. A celebrity memoir published this year opens in Los Angeles in 1956 with its protagonist watching American Bandstand: ...

The calculating machine of the Swiss clock-maker Victor (or Viktor) Schilt (1822-1880) was exhibited in 1851 at the Great ...

The oldest neighborhood here is The French Quarter (also known as Vieux Carré), which despite its reputation for rowdy tourists and souvenir shops, is tightly woven into the tapestry of New Orleans ...

Crown Paints, the leading paint manufacturer, has been granted a Royal Warrant from the King as part of the Royal Household’s latest round of awards. The status recognises businesses upholding ...

Attendees can peruse these and other pop-up style books in the exhibit:” The Art of Pop-Up Books & Paper Peepshows” at the James Smith Noel Collection on the third floor of the Noel Memorial Library.