COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations) ... Early 19th Century London. “A bathroom was unknown, and a tub a rarity supposed to be only necessary for an invalid. . . .

N athaniel Isaacs’s life defied convention. A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa.

As the first building to be built from an iron frame, the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings in England is a forerunner of all iron ...