Monumental Decadence: The Great Exhibition and the Albert Memorial

Authors

  • Andrea Hibbard

Keywords:

Great Exhibition, Great Exhibition of 1851, Crystal Palace, National Memorial to the Prince Consort, memorials, Victorian period

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2020-06-11