Large-scale institutional benevolence with a touch of humanity
In his bookThe Birth of the Modern Paul Johnson vividly describes the tremendous surge of energy that fuelled the enormous changes to both the physical and the social structure and organisation of our society in the early Victorian era. There was extraordinary progress in this period, which saw the formation of our first schools of architecture, and indeed the RIBA.
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