Liverpool is a city in northwestern England. It became a borough in 1207 and a city in 1880. It became a major center for the Atlantic slave trade, British immigration to North America, and the British cotton and coal industries in the nineteenth century.
Western India is a loosely defined region of India, including the states of Goa, Gujarat, and Maharashtra along with the Union territory of Daman and Diu, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The Ministry of Culture and some historians also include the state of Rajasthan.
The gallery was founded in Bond Street, London, by Sir Coutts Lindsay and Blanche Lindsay. The Grosvenor displayed work by artists from outside the British mainstream art, including Edward Burne-Jones and Walter Crane. In 1877, John Ruskin visited the gallery to see work by Burne-Jones.
Queen Square, located in the Bloomsbury district in central London, was originally built between 1716 and 1725. The square was originally named for a statue misidentified as Queen Anne but is now believed to be Queen Charlotte, the wife of King George III.
Belfast is Northern Ireland’s capital and largest city. By the 1800s, Belfast had become a major port and the city played a key role in the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century as the biggest liner producer in the world.
Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika are part of a series of lakes (The African Great Lakes) that constitute part of the Rift Valley lakes and the East African Rift.
John Murray moved to 50 Albemarle Street in 1812, as his home and office, after the publication of Lord Byron’s Childe Harold. Albemarle Street is located in Mayfair in central London, off Piccadilly. Byron’s letters were destroyed here after his death.