One Shilling Buys You the World: Let's Go to the Great Exhibition 1851

The Great Exhibition of 1851, the brainchild of Prince Albert and Henry Cole, had the loftiest of goals: the unity of humanity moving forward together via a merge of science, technology, and the arts.

We’ll think about…

• Prince Albert’s unexpected progressive views
• How to design an event as massive as the Exhibition with no guidebook from which to work
• How powerful entities like the press and politicians can screw up the best laid plans
• A new heyday of excursion travel based on Victorian novelties of leisure time and railroads
• The awe inspiring Crystal Palace
• A few of the 100,000 Exhibition artifacts, with an emphasis on the iconic and quirky 
• The legacy of the Exhibition

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