England's greatest repository of Old Masters paintings, with works by Leonardo, Botticelli, Rembrandt, Monet, Degas, and more
A small, free city museum of London life, Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite art, and Roman ruins in the basement
Visiting the Queen's Gallery of art of Buckingham Palace
A gallery of some of the greatest hits of British painting and sculpture
Fantastic, small, bit-of-everything museum—ancient Roman and Egyptian sculptures; paintings by Turner, Reynolds, and Hogarth; architectural remnants and Cantonese furniture—all crammed into the formerly private home of an eclectic collector
Packed with pictures of old Brits, including the only life portrait of Shakespeare
An English painter in the Flemish mold, depicting wonderful slices of life in early 18C England
On August 27, 1896, Britain declared war on its protectorate Zanzibar, where a pretender to the Sultanate had just siezed power.
At 9:02am, British ships in the habor began shelling the would-be Sultan's palace.
By 9:40, the shelling had stopped, the palace was on fire, and the pretender's flag had been cut down.
At 38 minutes, the Anglo-Zanzibar War remains the shortest war on record.
Some 500 Zanzibaris were killed.
One British Petty Officer was wounded.