About The Organizer
The parks gradually opened to the public. Hyde Park was the first, opened up by King Charles I in 1637. King Charles II invited the public into St. James’s Park soon after, and by the 1800s all the parks were open to everyone – Londoners and visitors alike.
In the Victorian age, the parks became an important public space for major events. To take the example of Hyde Park alone, it hosted the Great Exhibition in 1851, was marched on by reformers in 1866 and saw 300,000 suffragettes come to the park demanding the vote in 1908.