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History Theses 1901-1970
… Africa AFRICA GENERAL The effect of geographical factors on the spread of Islam, … 1938. Missionaries as transmitters of western civilisation in 19th-century Africa. R.W. Goodloe. St. Andrews Ph.D. 1956. … 18001966. W. Liu. Reading M.Phil. 1966/7. Blackwood's and Africa. C.A. Marin. Edinburgh M.Litt. 1970. Palmerston's …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… officinalis, or female agaric, growing on larch trees and used in medicine as a cathartic and emetic. Polyporus fomentarius … in dyeing. Given its medical uses, it is often found in the Latin form AGARICUS. A modern work on botanical …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Aighton - Akenham Aighton, with Bailey and Chaigley AIGHTON, with Bailey and Chaigley, a township, in the parish of Mitton, union of Clitheroe, Lower division … 15 a year, for the maintenance of a schoolmaster. Roman coins have been found. Aintree AINTREE, a township, in the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Aisholt AISHOLT Aisholt c.1838 THE ancient parish of Aisholt or Asholt lay in two parts: the larger included Aisholt village on the … irregular in shape, measured 3.5 km. from east to west and 1 km. from nsorth to south, the smaller was roughly oval, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… St - Aldborough Alban's (St.) ALBAN'S (ST.) a borough and market-town having separate jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the hundred of Cashio, or liberty of St. Alban's, county … consisting of tessellated pavements, military weapons, coins, &c, have at various times been discovered, and are …
Survey of London
… Albany CHAPTER XXII Albany: Stone Conduit Close Of the present buildings of Albany the 'mansion' (or Albany … the former Melbourne House built by Sir William Chambers in 17714 for the first Lord Melbourne. Behind the mansion two … built here. The site had been part of Stone Conduit Close and was a portion of the ground granted by the Earl of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Aldbourn (St. Michael) ALDBOURN ( St. Michael), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Hungerford, hundred of Selkley, Marlborough and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Alderholt AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN EAST DORSET Arranged by Parishes The group of four figures …
A Dictionary of London
… Churchyard - Aldgate Ward Aldermary Churchyard East and south of St. Mary Aldermary Church, from Budge Row to Bow … Lane (O. and M. 1677-L.C.C. List, 1912). There were houses in the churchyard in Strype's time (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. … was finally taken down and removed in 1761, some Roman coins were found under it. It was re-erected at Bethnal …
Old and New London
… Aldersgate Street and St Martin-le-Grand CHAPTER XXVII. ALDERSGATE STREET AND ST. MARTIN'S-LE-GRAND. Origin of the NameHistory of the Old GateIts DemolitionThe General Post … New BuildingsThe Telegraph DepartmentOld Houses in Aldersgate StreetThe "Bull and Mouth"Milton's …