Imagination and ingenuity have gone into the display of souvenirs of this earlier Jubilee, along with 3-D mockups of London buildings in 1897, which range from Buckingham Palace itself to a poor East End dwelling over a pawn shop.

WSJ: London's Tea and Circuses | Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee

When all the seaweed-eating fish in an area are removed, for example, the seaweed can take over completely, reducing coral cover and thus the diversity of bottom-dwelling organisms.

ECONOMIST: What price coral?

The hut and its land would be taken over by forest, and the hare would come out of the bushes and soil what had once been a dwelling of the human race.

NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants