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Hace 4 días · In 1887 lime trees were planted in the Market Place to commemorate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, and a statue was erected there to Henry Fawcett (1833–84), the blind Postmaster-General who was born in Queen Street.
Hace 5 días · The so-called Reformation Parliament that first met in November 1529 was unprecedented; it lasted seven years, enacted 137 statutes (32 of which were of vital importance), and legislated in areas that no medieval Parliament had ever dreamed of entering.
Hace 4 días · Alfred Marshall, miembro de la Academía Británica (26 de julio de 1842 – 13 de julio de 1924) fue uno de los economistas más influyentes del siglo XIX y de principios del siglo XX. Su libro, Principios de economía (1890), fue el libro de texto económico dominante en Inglaterra durante muchos años.
Hace 3 días · Members included Sir Charles Reed (d. 1881), chairman of the London school board, and his successor Henry Fawcett (d. 1884), the 'member for India', and for South Hackney Sir Charles Russell from 1885 until 1894, when he became Lord Russell of Killowen and lord chief justice.
Hace 2 días · In the churchyard is a monument to the blind Liberal politician Henry Fawcett (1833–84). The churchyard was enlarged in 1872, but closed in 1893, when the vicar sold 4 a. of his glebe in the angle between the Harston and Shelford roads for a new graveyard. The registers begin only in 1672.
Hace 2 días · The current constituency covers the majority of the city of Cambridge, including the areas of Arbury (which contains some social housing), Chesterton, Newnham, Cherry Hinton and the village of Trumpington; but the city's Queen Edith's ward (which includes Addenbrooke's Hospital and Homerton College) is in the neighbouring South ...
Hace 3 días · Citation: Dr David Abulafia, review of Prince Henry 'the Navigator'. A Life, (review no. 144) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/144. Date accessed: 24 June, 2024. See Author's Response. Peter Russell's Henry 'the Navigator' is one of those rare books which has had classic, or rather legendary, status even before it was published.
