On Christmas Eve 1800 Napoleon Bonaparte narrowly escaped being blown to pieces while travelling to the Paris theatre. A cart carrying a...

Vauxhall Gardens from The Microcosm of London (1808-10) Vauxhall Gardens appear in numerous novels written in the Georgian period, such...

Mr Fezziwig's Ball by John Leech from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1920 reprint of original 1843 edition) I have just wat...