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History Theses 1901-1970
… in Roman times, with special reference to theories of great climatic changes since then. T.W. McDougall. London … end of the Peloponnesian War to the death of Alexander the Great (404324 B.C.). J.C. Octon. Cambridge Ph.D. 1967. … A study of Jewish history from the death of Herod the Great to the destruction of Jerusalem, 4 B.C. - 70 A.D. …
Magna Britannia
… An upper apartment in this tower was ornamented with a great variety of paintings round the upper part of the oak …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… that of shalloons, which was formerly carried on to a great extent; and the construction of a canal from the town, … produce a fine hard gritstone, of whitish appearance, in great request for the paving of roads and streets; and grey … place: the distance to Liverpool is twenty miles, but the great elevation at Anglezarke renders the position chosen …
A Dictionary of London
… again in 1627 and again in 1684, having escaped the Great Fire, also in 1704 (Strype, ed. 1720, ii. 66), about …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… The manufacture of kelp, formerly carried on here to a great extent, has of late been greatly diminished; and that … and 650 acres are woodland, and is intersected by the great north road and the river Lossie. The isolated tract … abound with trout, eels, and pike, and are visited by a great variety of wild ducks, and sometimes by wild geese and …
A Dictionary of London
… now occupied by the railway lines of the North London and Great Eastern Railways. See Kingsdown Place. Angel Court …
A Dictionary of London
… 1799). Site now occupied by the Parcels' Office, Great Northern Railway. Angel Passage ,-South out of Upper … Site now occupied by the lines of the North London and Great Eastern Railways. Angel Square South out of Angel …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… part of this new marsh, pretending that it was part of 'a great parcel of ground in Broughton called Angerton Moss,' …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… council of 896 was held at Gloucester, perhaps in a great hall at Kingsholm, and during the proceedings a priest …
A History of the County of Oxford
… invaders to overpass that stretch of the river, though the great find at Taplow, Bucks., late though it be in date, and … however, of an extensive bank, called Harborough Bank, a great part of which was levelled in 1801 at the time of the inclosures. It was found to contain a great number of human bones, of children as well as adults. …