From one of our visitors: "My daughters always pictured museums as big places like the ones in [central] London. But after visiting the Brunel Museum, they really opened up to the idea that smaller heritage sites can be just as fun and interesting."

this was high on the list of things i never thought i'd learn about an engineer who died in 1849

Here's a brief round-up of the online accessiblity of 19th-c. letters. With a few bright exceptions (Darwin, Carlyles, Brownings, Collins) the situation is not good. In fact it's a real mess. www.victorianresearch.org/other.html#l...