On May 1 1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition. By the time it closed on October 15 it had attracted more than six million people, nearly a third of the population.

The Crystal Palace, Hyde Park. We've all heard of, and read about, London's Great Exhibition of 1851, organised by Prince Albert and Henry Cole, as the first 'World's Fair' to show off all the new ...

Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband, had commissioned watercolours of the exhibition from artists Joseph Nash and Louis Haghe for Dickinsons to reproduce, using the new chromolithography ...

So wrote Charlotte Bronte in 1851 after visiting the Great Exhibition set in the vast Crystal Palace in London's Hyde Park. ... It was also a triumph for Prince Albert and it turned a tidy profit.

And it will "the same size and scale" as the huge pre-fabricated building of iron and glass that formed the centrepiece of Prince Albert’s 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park.

The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 has backed 10 promising doctoral projects that it believes have the potential to positively impact society. Technologies to receive funding include new ...

Cruikshank is making fun of the approximately 25,000 people who attended the exhibition, which was conceived to demonstrate Britain’s status as an industrial power. According to Cruikshank’s catalogue ...

On May 1 1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition. By the time it closed on October 15 it had attracted more than six million people, nearly a third of the population.