London's Triumph Royal Observatory Perhaps it's travelling alone

Perhaps it's travelling alone

" Fredrik Broms 2013

The giant installation contained thousands of LED lights that showed multiple illuminations of three words that ultimately spelt out NO NEW WORLDS

and its afterlives

It's easy to see how the ancients used to  stargaze into the heavens

London's Triumph Royal Observatory Perhaps it's travelling aloneStephen Alford's evocative, original and fascinating new book brings to life the network of merchants, visionaries, crooks and sailors who changed London forever. Life in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th century by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and direct sea routes to Asia. To start with England was hardly involved and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed something extraordinary