Stories
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“Above resistant pavements, I floated”
In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.
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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
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A list of the names of the Court of Aldermen and sheriffs of the city of London; together with the deputies and common-council, as return'd by the several wardmote-inquests in their indentures; and the names of every ward the common-council-men belong to, for this year, 1709.
City of London (England). Court of Aldermen.Date: 1709- Books
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A sermon preach'd in the Cathedal Church of Norwich concerning the causes, mischiess, and cures of national division: Before the Right Worshipsul the mayor, justices sheriffs, and aldermen, &c. of that Her Majesty's ancient city, April the 18th. 1703. And publish'd at the request of their court of majoralty. By a prief of the Church of England.
Lyng, William, 1646 or 1647-1719.Date: 1703- Books
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Glyn, Mayor. At a Court of Aldermen held on Tuesday the 13th day of February 1759, and in the thirty-second year of the reign of King George the Second of Great-Britain, &c. IT is referred to Thomas Rawlinson, Thomas Chitty, Matthew Blakiston, William Stephenson, George Nelson, and Francis Gosling, Esquires, Aldermen, or any two of them, to be a Committee to consider of the Office of Collector of this City's Duty of Package and Scavage, for all Goods of Aliens imported into the Port of London, and what Regulations may be necessary to be made, and report their Opinions thereon to this Court.
City of London (England). Court of Aldermen.Date: 1773- Books
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Withers mayor. Martis, viijo die Junij, Anno Dom. 1708. Annoq; Regni ReginĂnn,̆ MagnB̆ritanni,̆ &c. septimo. It is this day ordered by this court, that the clause relating to servants in a late act of Parliament, intituled, an act for the better preventing mischiefs that may happen by fire, be forthwith printed, and sent into the several wards of this city, and by the beadles delivered to every house-keeper, that all servants may be acquainted with the same, and know the penalties therein contained; which clause hereafter follows, viz. ...
City of London (England). Corporation. Court of Common Council.Date: 1708]- Books
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Clark, Mayor. Rules, orders, and ordinances, to commence and take place from the 1st day of November, 1785; made, framed, and set down in writing, by the Court of the mayor and aldermen of the city of London, the 4th day of October, 1785; for the governing and regulating all persons who shall fish or drudge in the river of Thames, and also in the waters of Medway ...
City of London (England). Court of Aldermen.Date: 1785]