The Courtyard, Victoria and Albert Museum (2)

The Courtyard, Victoria and Albert Museum

Hidden within the Victoria and Albert Museum is the most wonderful internal courtyard surrounded by buildings with fantastic decoration … More

Some photos of the rooms inside the cottage at Wicken Fen.

From the 17th century onwards small communities developed at the edge of the Fens to serve the growing local industries … More

George Peabody was born in South Danvers, Massachusetts in 1795 to a poor family, one of seven children. At … More

Isabella Somerset (nee somers) was born in London in 1851, the daughter of 3rd Earl Somers. She married Henry Somerset, … More

William Edward Forster was born in Dorset in July 1818. After completing school, he worked in the woolen manufacturing trade. … More

It was a lovely sunny autumn day and a chance to get out to do some nature-watching. These days … More

Ferdinand Foch was born in Tarbes in October 1851. He enlisted in the French Infantry during the Franco-Prussian war … More

John Stuart Mill (born 1806) was described by one writer as ‘the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the 19th century’. … More