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Old and New London
… the collection of a series of portraits of English men and women of note and celebrity, and forming them into a …
Old and New London
… swarmed around a "'spital," associating of course with women of the lowest class, and so perpetuating the breed of …
Old and New London
… maiming harmless foot-passengers, and even defenceless women. They took various slang designations. At the …
Old and New London
… twenty rooms, to be inhabited rent free by as many poor women. They were founded in the reign of Elizabeth, under … Fiennes, Lord Dacre, for the support of ten men and ten women, as pensioners; and also for ten boys and ten girls, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to 20, are expended in the purchase of clothing for aged women: an annual sum of about 55, arising from bequests, is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… was held between 1932 and 1937, 14 and a branch of the Women's Institute was formed in 1938 but suspended in 1981. … when there were a large number of admissions to tenements. Women were presented for failing to come to bean planting and … 3 In 1867 potatoes were an important crop, and women picked and sorted them as well as makeing hay, milking, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… label an article of APPAREL. It was a NECKERCHIEF worn by women in the second half of the seventeenth century. OED …
A History of the County of Hertford
… in agriculture. Straw hat-making is still carried on by women in the cottages, though the bulk of the work is done at …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… year a machine was employed to thresh oats and wheat, four women each planted c. 30 peck of beans, and the farm kept a … Some years only two people attended but by the 1920s when women were included there were six. In 1919 they refused to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in building walls, is found on Hadden Hill. Many of the women and children are employed in making fishing-nets. The …