The Great Exhibitor : The Life and Work of Henry Cole - Hardcover
By the end of his life Henry Cole was recognised as a national institution, "Old King Cole", though has was also treated with caution as a "playful monster". He was a lifelong Civil Servant, in a period when Civil Servants could be buccaneering reformers rather than impassive mandarins. Describedas "a clever agitator, and a public spirited fellow", he waged many campaigns, moving from the Public Records to the Penny Post, to railway expansion, to patent law revision, to art and design reform. With Prince Albert, he created the Great Exhibition of 1851, and kept on organising international exhibitions for the rest of his life. He was in charge of a nationwide system of art and science education, and, again with Prince Albert, developed the South Kensington area as the intellectual quarter of London. The Victoria and Albert Museum, of which he was founding Director, remains as his best-known memorial, andis a symbol of his mission to educate through exhibiting. This book gives a rounded picture of this extraordinary man. He is portrayed not only as exhibitor, museum director andeducationalist, but as a galvanic force administering salutary shocks over a wide areas of Victorian life: children's books, hackney cabs, public lavatories, choral singing, cookery, sewage disposal, to name only a few. In his own time he aroused admiration and antipathy in equal measure. For today's readers, his energy and creativity will mark him out as an inimitable Victorian phenomenon.
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Anthony Burton is a prolific author, lecturer, and broadcaster. His many books include Back Door Britain, The Past Afloat, and Waterways of Britain.
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- PublisherVictoria & Albert Pubns
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1851773266
- ISBN 13 9781851773268
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages328
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