The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the Exhibition.

Geoffrey Cantor

II. Reactions to the Proposed Exhibition (continued), III. Th e Opening on 1 May 1851, Editorial Notes, Silent Corrections, List of Sources