There was a comment by G.K. Chesterton that the Revolutionaries seem like people who immediately belonged to a sort of classical antiquity or mythology, in that they were all, as a generation, killed - none of the main players lived to gouty old age, or to regale Victorian dinner parties with anecdotes. And of course they don't have graves: even their bones may have dissolved. So, I think it's weirdly appropriate that there's this display of broken china: more like something you'd see in a Museum on pre-history, shards of Roman pottery, a bent celtic torc - or shipwreck leftovers of a political storm where the bodies have been washed away.

On a lighter note, there's a great Alan Coren piece I'l have to root out on seeing Isambard Kingdom Brunel's hat.