Gilbert & George, the beard pictures

One of the leading exponents of the nineteenth century's Gothic Revival, the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811–78) most famously designed the Albert Memorial in Kensington G...

Pictures are principally descriptive. Advertising images highlight features of potential purchases; cartoons open portals to scenes in fictional worlds; snapshots in the family pho...

Henry George (1839–1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress a...

Edited by John Thomas Gilbert (1829–98), this register was originally published in 1889 and derives from the oldest administrative manuscript that survives from Anglo-Norman Irelan...