Horror Around The World

Simon Schama: A History of Britain (Special Edition) (2010) See Price and Buy ----> CLICK HERE Spring 1851. The word "Victorian" enters the English language and a very small woman enters a very big building. She's four foot eleven, yet somehow she fills it. The moment, so pregnant for the future, seems holy. Victoria is herself flooded with religious awe. Neither she nor anyone else has ever seen anything like this building before, a greenhouse the size of a palace, with the difference that this is, from the beginning, a people's palace. A popular magazine calls it the Crystal Palace. Its grandest spaces are filled not with courtiers and flunkeys, but steam pumps and locomotives, a huge showcase for Britain's industrial empire. Just three years before, in 1848, Europe had been torn apart by revolutions. The government had feared the same would happen here. As it turned out, other countries had war and revolution, we had the Great Exhibition. Othe...