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Modern Britain and Ireland - awarded 1990-1999
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… 1990 Accounting, costing and financial control systems in the N.E. England shipbuilding industry, 1818-1918. McLean, … Century; Education Agrarian reform on the Airlie estates in Angus and Strathmore, 1760-1850. Clapham, P. M.Phil., … Categories: 18th-19th Century Agriculture and environment in the Wessex chalklands: the Rawlences, farmers and land …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… Bill crisis stirred up a serious political agitation in Hull, an agitation directed under Radical leadership … (see Table 1) and was faced with problems, particularly in public health, similar to those faced by other northern … or from sanitary reformers, to those felt elsewhere. Yet, in contrast to many other towns of similar size, its old, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Ozleworth Oxford OXFORD, a university and city, locally in the hundred of Wootton, county of Oxford, of which it is … to have been many years prior to his reign, as, in an act of confirmation by Pope Martin II. in 802, it is described as an ancient academy of learning. …
Alumni Oxonienses
… rector of Bangor-ys-y-coed, Flints, 1523-7, imprisoned in the Tower of London two years; died 1532 or 28 June, 1536. … fellow 1574, B.A. 7 July, 1581, erroneously called Parye in O.H.S. xi. 68. [ 5] Packe, Christopher equitis fil. nat. … aged 17; B.A. 13 June, 1586, M.A. 3 Dec., 1589, rector of Stockerston, co. Leicester, 1593; see William same date. See …
A History of the County of Warwick
… rises rapidly to the west and north, reaching 300 ft. in the south-west corner and 415 ft. in the north-west corner of the parish. The village lies on … this road and Weethley Gate lies Ragley Park (500 acres in extent) with the Hall, a large lake, apparently …
A History of the County of Warwick
… lands allotted to the repair of the bridge are mentioned in the Inclosure Award of 1743. North of the bridge, on the … believed to have been the hall of the gild that was in existence here in the time of Henry VI (see below). It is first so called in …
A History of the County of Rutland
… the parish of Ayston is 904 acres, with a population of 56 in 1921, showing a decrease on the 1911 census. The land … are built of stone with thatched or stone roofs, the trees in Ayston Park forming a charming background. The church is … heir was his sister Alice, wife of Thomas de Boyville of Stockerston (co. Leic.), 7 who held a knight's fee here in …
A History of the County of Warwick
… but there is no station. There were about 40 houses in Bilton in 1730. 2 The land rises from the River Avon on the north, … south-east, where the level is about 270 ft., to 373 ft. in the village and 401 ft. near Bilton Grange on the southern …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Bromsgrove the civil parish of North Bromsgrove was formed in 1894, 1 Catshill, a separate ecclesiastical parish since 1844, 2 being included in it in 1895. In 1880 Crowfield was transferred from Dodderhill to …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Arrow, the highest pointseast of Alne Wood and Round Hill in the northern extremity of the parishbeing over the 400-ft. … Alcester Market Hall was ordered to be brought from Alne in 1618. 1 But agriculture is now the sole occupation. There … Wood of Alne, belonging to the Abbot of Winchcombe, which in 1326 was said to have been taken into the royal forest of …