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A History of the County of Stafford
… century became prosperous as button merchants, employing women and girls in the locality to make the buttons. Coal …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in 1829. 27 A later lodge was dissolved in 1866. 28 A Women's Institute was established in 1920. 29 A clubroom … run by the Misses Deakeyne. Two day schools were run by women teachers in 1884; both were closed c. 1890. 69 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… hall was opened north-east of the village in 1959. 18 A Women's Institute was formed in 1962. 19 The belief that … meeting at which, after prayers, oaths were taken from the women. They swore not to make buttons for less than certain … presumably meaning to strike, in three months' time. The women would then receive 6 s. a week, having contributed 2 d. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… at Warslow in 1842; it was dissolved in 1983. 78 A Women's Institute was formed at Warslow in 1928. 79 There was … there were pews for the clerk and for the churching of women at the north-east end of the nave. 84 A chancel, north … head office, Manchester. Inf. from Staffs. Federation of Women's Institutes. W.S.L., Sleigh scrapbk. ii, f. 97; inf. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a malthouse at Vine Cottage (later Home Farm). 113 Some women worked as dressmakers or straw-hat makers, and several …
A History of the County of Oxford
… continued to provide annual gifts of clothing for two poor women of the parish. 137 Goddard Carter (d. 1725) established …
A History of the County of Warwick
… for this parish to be distributed among four poor men or women who should frequent Communion of the Church of England …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… which affords a comfortable asylum for nine men and four women, who each receive about 20 per year, with bedding, … of 30. On Ampton green is an almshouse for four unmarried women, founded under the will of Mrs. Dorothy Calthorpe dated …
History Theses 1901-1970
… Durand, 19036. D. Eden. London M.Sc. 1966. The politics of women's suffrage in Britain and the United States of America, …
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… coverage: 18441876 Eve in the renegade city: elite Jewish women's philanthropy in Chicago, 1890-1900 . Farmer, Hannah … B.Litt., Oxford. Supervised by Colson, A.J. The role of women in the fur trade society of the Canadian West, … Categories: Economic history; Business history; Gender and Women; 18th-19th Century The Roosevelt administration and …