If you’ve been in London at all this summer it can’t have escaped your notice that there is a big anniversary this year, being celebrated throughout the capital. On 2nd September 2016 we commemorated 350 years since that famous fire caught flame on Pudding Lane and ravaged the medieval City for four long days. The… Continue reading Exhibition Review: Fire! Fire!
‘Early modern people lived in great darkness… in the seventeenth century consumer demand for window glass, mirrors, candles, and oil lamps all accelerated notably.[1]’ In terms of important advances, a lot of weight is often put on the Victorian invention of electricity and the dramatic effect it must have had on the atmosphere within our… Continue reading Reflecting away the gloom: English mirrors in the early eighteenth century
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