Melpomene world issue this tribute to the work

this tribute to the work of the architect Sir Christopher Wren brings together all the buildings thought to be by Wren in London

Princess Elizabeth pictuerd with her father King George VI leaving the Royal Box for the paddock at the end of the Epsom derby

unable to find a purchaser for his debt-laden estate at Ealing

This cartoon depicts Edward Cardwell

Melpomene world issue this tribute to the work'Melpomene', 1784. Melpomene, meaning to sing or the one that is melodious, was the Muse of tragedy in Greek mythology. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).