┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ The Spectrum of Eccentricity │ └───────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┘ │ ┌─────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┐ ▼ ▼ [William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck] [Francis Egerton] Constructed 15 miles of tunnels. Hosted lavish dinners for dogs.
No chronicle of peculiar British desires is complete without examining "follies"—extravagant, expensive buildings constructed for absolutely no functional purpose other than to satisfy the whimsical desires of their eccentric creators. The Chronicles of Peculiar Desires in the Briti...
Fern motifs stamped onto cast-iron garden benches, tea services, biscuits, and gravestones. Fern motifs stamped onto cast-iron garden benches, tea
This cultural shift put increasing pressure on the British Museum, and later the British Library, to re-evaluate its policy of extreme secrecy. If Lady Chatterley's Lover could be sold on the open market, why should a copy in the national library be locked away? The very rationale for the Private Case began to erode. The very rationale for the Private Case began to erode
The Mania for Miniature Monsters: Pteridomania and Orchid Delirium