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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… Pacific Ocean, 1779, Nathaniel Cook, lost with the man-of-war Thunderer, 1780, Hugh Cook, 1793, Cdr. James Cook, R.N., … in Corsica, white marble tablet with naval trophies of war and shield-of-arms of Serocold quartering Letwood, signed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were either recusants or Puritans. 293 When the Civil War broke out, the clergy of Oxfordshire were even more … Hist. 1357. W. A. Shaw, The Engl. Church during the Civil War, ii, 504, 511. Though the use of the Book of Common …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… these concentrations but since the end of the Second World War new concentrations have become evident in Kilburn and … in that year. 83 The scheme was disrupted by the war and not revived after it. There are specialized …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the boundary at Canwell in the years after the First World War. The early attempts at market-gardening, for which the … of cultivated land in the city during the Second World War: Birm. and its regional setting, 306. W. B. Mercer, …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The decisive change seems to have come with the Civil War, if not because of it. 1640-1760 There can be little doubt that the demand for arms caused by the Civil War benefited Birmingham. The tradition is that one Robert … little about the fate of the trade after the end of the war period in 1713 but the skill continued. The leading maker …
A History of the County of Warwick
… was still Victorian in method and scale. The First World War speeded up and further extended the trend. By 1927 there … 1870 and in the years 1882 to 1884 and after the Boer War, private military rifle production was entirely … to close again or go into other lines after the Boer War. Even the Birmingham Small Arms Company had to enter …
A History of the County of Warwick
… mills increased, the number mentioned during the civil war period and its aftermath being significant. The period … in the development of the Birmingham trades. During the war periods of the 18th and early 19th centuries a number of …
A History of the County of Warwick
… faculty were completed in 1909. During the First World War the Edgbaston buildings became a military hospital, and … began. Between then and the outbreak of the Second World War the Biological Block, the Union Building, the Hills … to the new buildings in 1938. 92 After the Second World War the extent of the Edgbaston estate was greatly enlarged …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… as the Cockayne project. The outbreak of the Thirty Years War in particular brought considerable unemployment to the … one of general stagnation. Once the troubles of the Civil War and the Restoration were over the famous fine-cloth of … This relative decline lasted until the Second World War. It is in the light of these figures that we must examine …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Chelsea still had 1 cow shed just before the First World War, but by 1918 there were none. 16 Inf. from Dr C.P. Lewis. …