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- Archives and manuscripts
FPRC tabled papers, subjects include: altimeter design, human factors in helicopter flying
Date: 1961Reference: PP/HEW/F.4/14Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Books
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Remarks on the celebrated calculations of the value of South-Sea stock, in the Flying-Post of the 9th of April, 1720. Paragraph by paragraph. In order to remove the aspersions thereby cast on the present contract with that company, to the great Discouragement of the New Subscribers.
Date: M.DCC.XX. [1720]- Archives and manuscripts
General papers and correspondence, including: water deprivation during sea survival, 1951 notes on the physiology of flying
Date: 1943-1976Reference: PP/HEW/F.4/16Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Books
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Some seasonable considerations for those who are desirous, by subscription, or purchase, to become proprietors of South-Sea stock. With remarks On the Surprizing Method of Valuing South-Sea Stock, Publish'd in the Flying-Post of Saturday, April the 9th, 1720. By a Member of the House of Commons.
Hutcheson, Archibald, approximately 1659-1740.Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- Books
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Some seasonable considerations for those who are desirous, by subscription, or purchase, to become proprietors of South-Sea stock. With remarks On the Surprizing Method of Valuing South-Sea Stock, Publish'd in the Flying-Post of Saturday, April the 9th, 1720. By a Member of the House of Commons.
Hutcheson, Archibald, approximately 1659-1740.Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- Books
Me and my fear / Francesca Sanna.
Sanna, FrancescaDate: 2018- Archives and manuscripts
Minutes
Date: 1959-1962Reference: PP/HEW/F.2Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Archives and manuscripts
Role and remit of FPRC
Date: 1958-1966Reference: PP/HEW/F.3Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Archives and manuscripts
Reports
Date: 1940-1960Reference: PP/HEW/F.1Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Archives and manuscripts
Committee and working papers
Date: 1942-1976Reference: PP/HEW/F.4Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Archives and manuscripts
Physiological Sub-Committee
Date: Oct 1959-Apr 1961Reference: PP/HEW/F.2/3Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Archives and manuscripts
Report to the Secretary of State for Air on work done 1957-1960'
Date: 1960Reference: PP/HEW/F.1/3Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Archives and manuscripts
Report to the Secretary of State for Air on the Committee's Activities for the period 1940-1945'
Date: 1945Reference: PP/HEW/F.1/2Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Archives and manuscripts
Report to the Secretary of State for Air on the Activities of the FPRC 1939-1940'
Date: 1940Reference: PP/HEW/F.1/1Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Archives and manuscripts
Psychological Sub-Committee
Date: Dec 1959-Jan 1961Reference: PP/HEW/F.2/2Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Archives and manuscripts
Minutes
Date: 1939-1962Reference: PP/HEW/F.2/1Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Archives and manuscripts
Matters discussed 1939-1960'
Date: 1960Reference: PP/HEW/F.1/4Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Books
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The history of the wicked life and horrid death of Doctor John Faustus. Shewing How he sold himself to the Devil, to have Power for twenty-four Years to do what he pleased. Also, The Strange things done by Him and Mephostophiles. With an Account how the Devil came for him at the end of [24] Years, and tore him to Pieces.
Date: M DCC LXVII [1777]- Books
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A Genuine account of the life, robberies, trial and execution, of William Hawke, call'd the Flying Highwayman. Who was executed at Tyburn, July the first, 1774. Containing his birth and education. His numerous robberies both as a footpad, and on the highway, his generosity to persons in distress. His flight to France, with his character of that country and people. His transportation to America, and quick return. His escape out of Tothil-fields, Brdewell. His battle with Captain Cunningham and Mr. Hart. The manner of his apprehension, with his desperate resistance. His behaviour to his friends, and particular regard to his wife, his behaviour under sentence of death in Newgate, &c.
Date: Printed A.D. MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The law of arrests in both civil and criminal cases: shewing for what causes, by what authority, by whom, and how arrests are to be made; what Persons and Places are privileged, and who protected from Arrests; how to raise a Hue and Cry; the Consequences of Opposing, Resisting, Preventing, and Flying from Arrests; the Treatment under Arrest and in Gaol; the Fees on Arrests, Commitments, &c. the Nature of Bail, Escapes, Rescues, Breach of Prison, and of being legally discharged out of Prison, &c. Necessary for Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, Sheriffs Bailiffs, Coroners, Justices of Peace, Mayors and Bailiffs of Cities and Towns, Constables, &c. as well as Debtors, Creditors, Prisoners, and all private Persons. In two parts. By an attorney at law.
Attorney at Law.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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The Comical history of simple John, and his twelve misfortunes, Which happened all in twelve days after the unhappy day of his marriage. Being a particular account of his courtship and marriage to a scolding wife; which has been a mortifying misery to many a poor-man.
Date: 1780- Books
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The life and adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish man. Relating particularly, his shipwreck near the South Pole; his wonderful Passage through a Subterraneous Cavern into a kind of new world; his there meeting with a Gawry, or Flying Woman, whose life he preserved, and afterwards married her; his extraordinary conveyance to the Country of Glums and Gawrys, or Men and Women that Fly. Likewise a description of this strange Country, with the Laws, Customs, and Manners of its inhabitants, and the Author's remarkable Transactions among them. Taken from his own mouth, in his Passage to England, from off Cape Horn, in America, in the Ship Hector. With an Introduction, giving an Account of the surprising Manner of his coming on board that Vessel, and his death on his landing at Plymouth, in the Year 1739. By R.S. a passenger in the Hector. In two volumes. ...
Paltock, Robert, 1697-1767.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A full vindication of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Edinburgh and the other administrators of the charities there, from the calumnies and the False and Scandalous Assertions and Insinuations of Mr. George Barclay in his defamatory libel, publish'd in the Flying-Post, no.3181. With an Inhuman as well as Unchristian Design, to hinder the Charity of Good Christians, towards the Relief of the Suffering Episcopal Clergy in Scotland.
Date: MDCCXII. [1712]- Books
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The devil to pay at St. James's: or, A full and true Account of a most horrid and bloody Battle between Madam Faustina and Madam Cuzzoni. Also Of a hot Skirmish between Signor Boschi and Signor Palmecini. Moreover, How Senesino has taken Snuff, is going to leave the Opera, and sing Psalms at Henley's Oratory. Also About the Flying Man, and how the Doctor of St. Martin's has very unkindly taken down the Scaffold, and disappointed a World of good Company. As also How a certain Great Lady is gone mad for Love of William Gibson, the Quaker. And How the Wild Boy is come to Life again, and has got a Dairy Maid with Child. Also About the great Mourning, and the Fashions, and the Alterations, and what not. With other material Occurrences, too many to insert.
Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Archives and manuscripts
Backward facing seats
Date: Jul 1957Reference: PP/HEW/F.4/6Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal