Stories
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Designing death in the virtual city
Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.
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Graveyards as green getaways
Stressed city dwellers have been visiting cemeteries in greater numbers since the start of the pandemic. Discover how, despite the constant reminders of death, graveyards bring visitors a sense of renewal.
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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
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England's gazetteer; or, an accurate description of all the cities, towns, and villages of the Kingdom. In three volumes. Vol. I. and Vol. II. contain a dictionary of the Cities, Corporations, Market-Towns, and the most noted Villages; their Manufactures and Trade; Markets, Fairs, Customs, and Privileges; principal Buildings, and charitable Foundations, &c. With their Distance from London, in Miles both computed, and measured. ... A New Index Villaris, or, Alphabetical Register of the less noted Villages; With their Distance, or Bearing, from the next Market-Town, or well-known Place. This Work includes all the chief Harbours, Bays, Forests, Hills, Mines, medicinal Springs, Moors, and other Curiosities both of Nature and Art; and not only takes notice of most of the Manors and Seats in the Kingdom, both ancient and present; but also points out the old military Ways, Camps, Castles, and other remarkable Ruins of Roman, Danish, and Saxon Antiquity:-And particularly shews the Estates that were formerly Abbey-Lands.
Whatley, Stephen, active 1712-1741.Date: M.DCC.LI. [1751]- Books
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The general gazetteer: or, compendious geographical dictionary. Containing a description of all the empires, Kingdoms, States, Republics, Provinces, Cities, chief towns, Forts, Fortresses, Castles, Citadels, Seas, harbours, Bays, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Capes, and promontories in the known world; together with the government, policy, Customs, Manners, and Religion of the inhabitants; The Extent, Bounds, and Natural Productions of each Country; and the Trade, Manufactures, and Curiosities, of the Cities and Towns; their Longitude, Latitude, Bearing and Distances in English Miles from remarkable Places; As also, The Sieges they have undergone, and the Battles fought near them. Including An Authentic Account of the Counties, Cities, and Market-Towns in England and Wales; as also the Villages, with the Days on which the Fairs are kept. Embellished with nine maps. By R. Brookes, M.D.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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A history of the whole realm of Scotland, civil, natural, and ecclesiastical: comprehending an account of all its kings, and remarkable events, with a description of its situation, commodities, distances of towns, &c. Also, Of Cities, Royal Borroughs, Abbeys, Palaces, Forts, Castles, Towns, Roads and Rivers; Together With a List of the Shires, Synods, Presbyteries, Parishes, Royal Family, Nobility, Officers of State, Court of Session, Admiralty, &c. &c. And Likewise, A Description of the Orkneys, and the other Isles, with the Genealogy of the Saxons, Danes, and Normans. With a variety of other curious and interesting particulars, proper to be known and perused by every Scotsman.
Date: 1760- Books
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Longitude delineated; or, the exact difference of time between all the chief towns and Cities throughout his Majesty's British dominions, to the Sixtieth Part of a Minute from London. A Work never before attempted in that peculiar Manner as it is now Stated, from the exactest Rules in Geography. By John Neale, Watchmaker.
Neale, John (Clockmaker)Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]- Books
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The general London guide; or, tradesman's directory for the year 1794. With a general index to trades. Containing a separate arrangement of all the merchants, manufactures, and principal traders In The Cities Of AtLondon, Wesminster, And Borough Of AtSouthwark. Also a complete list of the market towns in Great Britain; their Distances from London; the Market Days-The Stage Coaches, Post, Waggons, and other Carriages; the Hours of setting-out; their Postage and Fares to Town; with the principal Inns they put up at, &c. &c. A complete list of all the magistrates and police officers in London, &c.; the Fees to be taken by each Clerk as regulated; with the Name and Place of Abode of each Magistrate, &c. &c. A short sketch of the political geography of Europe, with the Number of Inhabitants, Miles, Acres, and Distances to each Place; and an exact Account of the Commodities sent to, and taken from them. A correct tide table, shewing the true Time of High Water at London-Bridge, and all the Ports in Great-Britain, every Day in the Year 1794.
Boyle, P. (Patrick), -1808?.Date: [1793?]