The performers were part of a movement known as rebel clowning. Their aim was to parody the British reverence for statues, a ...

Richard Cobden, statesman and champion of free trade, has a memorial bust in the west aisle of the north transept of Westminster Abbey. Charles Dickens was one of those who signed the petition for ...

This formal portrait provides a sharp contrast to the way Czar Nicholas I was depicted in the satirical press. Richard Cobden, a leading supporter of the Peace Society, and John Bright, a Quaker and ...