The entire spectacle lasted less than an hour, yet the royal visit was the pinnacle in the short-lived history of Oak Bay’s ...

The entire spectacle lasted less than an hour, yet the royal visit was the pinnacle in the short-lived history of Oak Bay’s ...

Ceramic souvenir of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nation's Crystal Palace. The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, or Great Exhibition, was held in England ...

World fairs have served as a stage for international business by showcasing the latest technology and goods of the era. A new book describes how Japan used world expos starting from the end of the ...

The Expo phenomenon, which brought the Eiffel Tower to Paris, began with London’s 1851 Crystal Palace exhibition and is held every five years. AFP ...

An impressive array of architects, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Heatherwick Studio, Le Corbusier to Álvaro Siza, have designed structures at world fairs, or expos. Here we round up the 12 most ...

Expo is also known as a World’s Fair, and the phenomenon, which brought the Eiffel Tower to Paris, began with London’s 1851 Crystal Palace exhibition and is held every five years.

But why was the Crystal Palace Club fielding a football team at all, and why were they in Leytonstone, miles from their home in Sydenham? To answer these questions, we must go back a few years. The ...

And the sparkling Crystal Palace, which had housed the wonders of the age, was shifted to south London, where it gave its name to a whole neighbourhood. The Great Exhibition’s legacy is immense.

“There was the Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851 and other great exhibitions in countries like France and America. “Incubators containing live babies were commonplace in American exhibitions.

As is well-known, it originated from the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, where the Crystal Palace was constructed by Sir Joseph Paxton.