Madame Tussaud and her Waxworks
Pamela Pilbeam celebrates the bicentenary of the arrival of Madame Tussaud's waxworks in Britain.
November 2002 was the bicentenary of the arrival of Tussaud’s waxworks in Britain. By the 1840s the exhibition was – and amazingly it still is – the biggest tourist attraction in the country. How was it that a French waxworks came to London on tour and never went home?
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