The Flying Boy Experiment— in which scientists electrocuted children for entertainment and to demonstrate the power of the new discovery. This was one of the milder experiments.
From Electricity: The Spark of Life at the Wellcome.
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Detail from Graveyard in the Tyrol, John Singer Sargent, 1914.
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Minerva. Roman, 2nd century. “Found” on the Esquiline Hill. Helmet by Carlo Albacini 1783. British Museum.
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While a student at the Slade, Augustus John would rip up and discard his sketches. Another student pulled them out of the trash and compiled albums out of the remnants. Weird; but weirder still, the albums are on display in the UCL Art Museum.
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My pedestrian commute through central London often takes me across the UCL campus, where I always take a moment to say hello to Jeremy Bentham.
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Fortnum & Mason. Not coeliac safe, but awfully pretty.
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