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Journal of the House of Lords
… President in the Chair. Dr. Patrick Kelly is called in, and the Correspondence and Papers relating to Samples of Tea procured for the … here, who thought more of War, and the Sword, and Field Sports, than of Education. When the Brahmins succeed to …
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. … coverage: 18001900 From turban to tarboush: Dār al-ʹUlūm and social, linguistic, and religious change in inter-war … Independence; Unilateral Declaration of Independence The sports boycott of South Africa in the 1970s: socio-political …
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 … blankets, 264 and the part-financing of unsound savings clubs and friendly societies. 265 Lastly, emigration was …
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 … fluctuations have been in no way peculiar to Wiltshire, and the fundamental explanation of the county's agricultural …
A History of the County of Sussex
… road two miles (3.2 km.) north of the South Downs, and forms a salient of Bramber rape into Lewes rape. In 1881 it had 1,763 a., and in 1971 the area was given as 713 ha. 2 In 1985 some land … in shape, c. 2½ miles (4 km.) from north to south and 1¼ miles (2 km.) from east to west. The western boundary …
A History of the County of Essex
… accumulate for several years before spending it on bread and blankets. 4 Nicholas Stowe, by will proved 1563, pro- vided that, if his heirs failed, his house and land in Aldham should be sold and the proceeds given to the poor. 5 The land was presumably …
A History of the County of Essex
… the road from Marks Tey on a small part of the south-west, and by field boundaries on most of the remain- ing sides; in the north-west, south-west, and south-east, however, the parish boundary ran across … Road in 1927, and in 1998 was used for about a dozen local clubs and activities. 46 The assizes were presumably …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… parish of Aldsworth lies 6.5 km. south-east of Northleach and 5 km. north-east of Cirencester. In 1976 it covered an area of 1,356 ha. (3,350 a.) 1 and was irregular in shape with the boundaries marked by field boundaries save on the west and part of the south where they followed the river Leach and …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… requesting him to send a prior who knew the way of truth, and would walk in it fearlessly and lead his brethren to salvation. This request received no … frequenting houses of ill-repute, and taking part in sports not merely idle and worldly, but actually sinful. More …
A History of the County of Stafford
… monks' were holding the Derbyshire manors of Doveridge and Marston-upon-Dove from Henry de Ferrers. 3 It is equally … Priory but those of the abbey of St. Pierresur-Dives and that a priory had not yet been founded at Tutbury, the … II. 4 It records the extensive endowment given by Henry and his wife Bertha to the priory, which was dedicated to the …