"Monuments and Dust" names the work of an international group of scholars now assembling a complex visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London--the largest city of the nineteenth-century world and its first urban metropolis.
"Monuments and Dust" names the work of an international group of scholars now assembling a complex visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London--the largest city of the nineteenth-century world and its first urban metropolis. At the University of Virginia in the United States and at University College, London in the United Kingdom, the research group has two well-supported centers that serve as foci for the firmly bi-national initiative. At the time of this writing more than fifty researchers from the two countries have committed themselves to the project. They are linked both through their scholarly collaboration and through participation in annual conferences held alternately in Charlottesville, Virginia and London, England. Work of the first several years will culminate in a large-scale conference in London in 2001, the centenary of Queen Victoria's death and the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the Great Exhibition of 1851.