With his long unkempt hair, his colourful ties and ample figure, Sir John Harvey-Jones was hardly the traditional idea of a captain of industry. Yet, as chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987, he ...

What do we think of when we ponder the Victorian era? I, for one, always think of steam trains, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper, pea-soupers (thick London fog), public ...

A PAPER on “Sir John Floyer and his Times” was read recently before the Johnson Society by Mrs. Lilian Lindsay, honorary librarian of the British Dental Association. Sir John Floyer was born ...

Designer, writer, and academic Michael John Goodman has launched three online archives of Victorian illustrations covering works by Shakespeare, Dickens, and Chaucer.