The Historian · Charlotte · London
National Portrait Gallery
I use this building as a timeline. Walk room by room and you're watching the national self-image being revised in real time across five centuries.
Not an art gallery. A chronological argument about who Britain decided was worth remembering — and when it changed its mind about them.
— Charlotte, The Historian
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