The Great Exhibition India No. 7 1852 toy A community of Indian seamen

A community of Indian seamen grew up in the Docklands areas of Stepney

The Right Dishonourable Double-Face Asquith'

It shows the Huguenot congregation emerging from the French Church in Soho

Dr Johnson and Oliver Goldsmith

Essex Buildings

The Great Exhibition India No. 7 1852 toy A community of Indian seamenThe Great Exhibition: India No. 7, 1852. Chromolithograph. John Tallis' widely read History and Description of the Crystal Palace described India as Britain's pre eminent colonial possession and the source of 'priceless treasures'. However, while acknowledging the value of India to Britain, the author denigrates the 'tributes' sent to the exhibition as 'glittering toys' and examples of 'wasteful and ridiculous excess'. The prejudices expressed in the