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History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… on the frontiers: the |Xam Bushmen of the Northern Cape, South Africa, in the 19th century. McGranaghan, Mark D.Phil., … by Hourani, A.H. British anti-imperialism towards South Africa, 1895-1910. Duncan, Georgena D. Ph.D., … Supervised by Hourani, A.H. 1972 A history of West Nile district, Uganda: the effects of political penetration upon …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… there. As the lead had been stripped from the roof of the south transept, it is probable that a brick wall was also required to separate the south transept from the church. The retaining wall at the … 21 1 0 0 A moiety of the fees of John Usher, warden of the South-gate (13 s. 4 d.) 21 6 8 A moiety of the fees of Hugh …
Old and New London
… spread out its paths of iron, like a net-work, north and south, east and west, through half the counties of England, … and Agar Town almost demolished. Yet those who knew this district at that time have no regret at the change. Time was … storeys, including attics in the sloping roofs. At the south-east corner of the building is a clock-tower 240 feet …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… as an industry; while the physical features of the district lent themselves to good husbandry. The climate is … others, and the whole north is much more hilly than the south. The area of Middlesex returned in the census of 1901 … progress of building:- 1. Hundred of Edmonton, including South Mimms, Enfield, Edmonton, Tottenham. The soil is clay …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 66,000 acres of flinty-covered ground about the Chiltern district. 4. 168,000 acres of miscellaneous soil, such for … in the middle, and the chalk and gravel soils of the south. To provide keep for sheep a system of catch cropping … scale being restricted to Australia, the Argentine and South Africa. The total figures for the world show that in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to cheese dairy farming and grazing. To the extreme south-west lay a small part of the Butter Country, and in the extreme south-east there were fragments of a forest-pasture region. … there was a fringe of the Cotswold Country, another great district of sheep-and-corn farming. Still a further …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… pursuits of the inhabitants of every county or district are directed, in the first place, to supply their … all inclosures in Wiltshire after 1700. The fact that the south was too far from towns to provide a market for a … were few, 15 although rents rose more rapidly than in the south. 16 Much unsuitable land which had been used for arable …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the lowest cost as the new price levels demanded. In the south, at any rate, even the technically efficient farmers of … per cent. of the area of Wiltshire. If it is assumed that south, or Chalk, Wiltshire covered two-thirds of the county, … ploughing up old pastures on claylands, as in the Swindon district. 33 The expansion of the arable area was no doubt a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Aighton, Bailey, and Chaigley, meet on the north and south summit of the eastern side of the crescent of Longridge Fell. Aighton occupies the east-south-east brow, whence it gradually recedes by a gentle … object to the whole of the surrounding country. On the south angle of the front of the college, is a handsome chapel …
A History of the County of Somerset
… village on the eastern side of the Quantock ridge 4 km. south of Nether Stowey; the smaller was 4.5 km. north-east of … 3.5 km. from east to west and 1 km. from nsorth to south, the smaller was roughly oval, 1.7 km. east to west. 1 … is on Hangman grits. 5 The parish boundary on the east and south followed a footpath, lanes, and a stream, on the west …