Edwardian

The final fraudulent Cottingley fairies photograph was taken on 21 August 1920 by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths.

Charismatic Nations: A Cultural History of Nationalism in Europe from 1800 to the Present by Joep Leerssen looks to art and not politics for the birth of the nation.

On 1 July 1903 a publicity stunt for a sporting paper cycled into history as the first Tour de France.

By the turn of the 20th century Carl Hagenbeck’s Tierpark had revolutionised zoo exhibits – and the exotic animal trade.

For the Victorians and Edwardians, the late British summer was a time of sun, sand – and sea serpents.

In 1903 a group of politicians tried to sell tariffs as a panacea to all of Britain’s problems. Would the public buy it?

Hertha Ayrton’s experiment in a bathtub may have saved lives in the trenches, but it caused ripples among the ranks of the Royal Society.

In the early 20th century the prison population in England and Wales was in sharp decline, despite a rise in crime. 

From imported plant species to water pollution, Britain’s 19th century wool trade transformed the world.