Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian Sir Thomas Seymour Cairo's citadel was begun by

Cairo's citadel was begun by Salah ad-Din (Saladin) in the 12th century but the fortifications were repeatedly added to and extended over the centuries that followed

Illustration of the process of heckling hemp to separate the plant fibres

Monument to Thomas Guy at Guy's Hospital

A man - possibly John Bull

Many experiments were under way to utilise electricity for public lighting in London

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian Sir Thomas Seymour Cairo's citadel was begun byThomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, c1890. Carlyle (1795 1881) wrote a history of the French Revolution which gained him popular as well as academic fame when it was published in 1837. He also wrote The Chartist in 1840, a book opposing conventional economic thinking. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.