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Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. Francis Hastings Toone Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: Have you been in China? I have been. … twice to Europe; once I was absent for Three Years, and another Time for Two. Your Knowledge of China extends … and we reduced each of those Classes One Tale. How is that Contract Price fixed? Those Prices have been …
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… British-led police reforms in Sierra Leone, 1945-61 and 1998-2007. Krogstad, Erlend Grøner D.Phil., Oxford. (Pol. … dominance. Serour, Fatiha Ph.D., Aberdeen. Supervised by Kemp, A.G.; Bridges, R.C. Categories: 20th Century An … Nigeria; Nigeria Gladstone, Gordon and Sudan, 1883-5: how British policy created a Victorian icon. Nicoll, Fergus …
Old and New London
… Agar Town and the Midland Railway CHAPTER XXVIII. AGAR TOWN, AND THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. Origin of the Midland RailwayAgar … soil in which they had lain mouldering. The difficulty was how to identify the bones of a French ecclesiastic amid so …
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 and igniarius, Male agaric, … the elastic force of condensed air. This does not explain how it worked, and neither does the only example in the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… climate is equable, the July isotherm being 64 degrees, and that of January 40 degrees, while the mean of the whole … year is 50 degrees on the higher ground north of London, and 51 degrees in the Thames Valley. Rainfall varies much … with some alteration of the soile. It may be noted also how nature has exalted Harrow on the hill, which seemeth to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… people lived in the two main towns of Shrewsbury and Telford, the county's landscape remained largely rural and agricultural. 3 The main crises in the long history of … answers from both agriculturists and conservationists: how intensively should resources of land and water be …
A History of the County of Oxford
… varying soils. As the county is almost fifty miles long, and contains close on 480,000 acres of land, it is not … to find that the soils vary to a very large extent, and that consequently there is no fixed rule or custom of … is very disappointing, especially when we bear in mind how much cheaper artificial manures are now than they were in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… directed, in the first place, to supply their own wants, and next, to enable themselves to purchase those necessaries … virtually disappeared; the capitalist winter dairyman and the corn and sheep farmer, dependent upon cash sales and … danger of undermining their whole system. 122 We have seen how the latter objection was generally overcomeby the use of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Agriculture since 1870 AGRICULTURE SINCE 1870 Between 1870 and the present day English agriculture, and Wiltshire agriculture along with it, has experienced … 138 The existence of subsidies makes it impossible to tell how much of this investment has been economic. That it has …
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 … its name from the querns, or millstones, obtained from the how or hill in the parish: it comprises an area of 527 a. 18 …