Joseph Paxton

The imaginative genius behind the Great Exhibition

27 June 2026 9:00 am

The revenue derived from the international fair of 1851 helped fund the V&A, the Natural History and Science Museums and many other ‘Albertopolis’ institutions

‘At the Cottage Door’, by Myles Birket Foster (1825–99)

Beauty in beastly surroundings

26 April 2014 9:00 am

The vast majority of books written about British gardens and their histories are concerned with large ones, made and maintained,…