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…worlds under Soviet rule. Writers in former soviet-run states had to contend with the rules of a free market. Maureen’s work to bring together “common efforts for common interests” was…
Read more…regularly transferred as Maureen has completed publications or found time to sort materials relating to her wider activities [ed note: now in 2020, 140!]. The most recent material relates to…
Read more…streets below and the universe above. The Chapter Titles in Philosophical Transactions of the 1760 Lunar Eclipse and 1764 Solar Eclipse observed by James Short. Sources: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorStored=Short%2C+James&startPage=0&pageSize=20 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Short,_James_(DNB00) https://www.in2013dollars.com/uk/inflation/1768?amount=20000 https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/history-science-technology-and-medicine/history-science/how-did-18th-century-people-react-eclipses…
Read more…both questioned, and examined by the matron, who decided by means of a search that she was ‘light’, not a virgin. Bridewell, once a royal palace, sat by the Fleet…
Read more…beauty. Further reading: [1] “Written in Troublous Times:” The Wessex Gospels. (2013). Medieval Manuscripts Blog, British Library. [2] “Who were the Anglo-Saxons,” Julian Harrison, British Library https://www.bl.uk/anglo-saxons/articles/who-were-the-anglo-saxons [3] “strand,…
Read more…rights abuses in Nigeria, Amnesty International said today [10 February 2020], as the oil giant braces itself for conclusions in a string of European court battles. Allegations range from complicity…
Read more…access through OCLC [3] https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/sale-catalogues [4] William Perfect Manuscript on-line https://museumfreemasonry.org.uk/william-perfect-manuscript [5] The John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland https://digital.nls.uk/jma/index.html [6] Collection of assignments of copyright between English authors…
Read more…held bake sales, sing-a-longs, and held seminars in the rain and early spring sunshine. Topics ranged from what a decolonised university would look like, through to discussions of government policies,…
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