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The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… railway. It was an excursion train of children and women, which had to meet at another spot, another train. When … but many of their cities have been burnt, and men, women and children slaughtered in hundreds. The most savage … to the latest accounts, 7 have been killed (chiefly women) and hundreds wounded, numbers not known. The service …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Very fine. The latest accounts fix the number of men, women and children massacred at Delhi as 3,000. Alas! Alas! … horrid, barbarous massacres by Nana Sahib of a 150 more women and children at Cawnpore. It is known now that that … manner upwards of 1000 Europeans, most of them being women. General Havelock discovered this last massacre when he …
A History of the County of Northampton
… lacemaking remained a ubiquitious by-employment for women in Wicken until the early 20th century. In 1891 there … retired in 1921 and was succeeded by the first of three women heads, each of whom initially brought new life to the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… century the almshouses accommodated elderly people, mostly women, sometimes with their families. 14 The long, thatched … at 'Row green' was half-derelict, housing only four old women, by the 1880s and empty by 1896. It was then demolished …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was accused of upholding ceremonies, including churching women at the communion rail, and of encouraging villagers who …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1867. One farmer alone in 1871 hired 14 men to dig and 11 women, out of c. 60 so employed, to pick those fossils. 16 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… while 90, out of 100-120 enrolled, attended in 1866. Local women were recruited to teach the infants, and, sometimes, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… different in 1642, when 12 people, including, unusually, women, were recorded as taking the Protestation oath. 80 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… on alternate Sundays and at the chief festivals. In 1875 women were removed from the choir and surplices were worn. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the unusually large number of laundresses in Willesden, women who earned good wages to supplement the seasonal work … 86 By 1902 there were 137 laundries employing 2,046 women. The numbers declined, to 60 factory and 28 domestic … 1919 there were 15 laundries each employing more than 40 women, the two largest, in Stonebridge and Craven Park, …