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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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When the sun goes down
Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.
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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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A collection of treaties of peace, commerce, and alliance, between Great-Britain and other powers, from the year 1619 to 1734. To which is added, a discourse on the Conduct of the Government of Great - Britain, in Respect to Neutral Nations. By the Right Hon. C. Jenkinson, Secretary at War. The whole being a supplement to A collection of treaties, between Great Britain and other Powers, from the Revolution, in 1688. In Two Volumes.
Great Britain.Date: [1781]- Books
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By the Lords Justices and Council of Ireland, a proclamation. Tho. Armagh, Con. Phipps. Canc. Whereas by the decease of our late sovereign Lady Queen Anne of blessed memory, the Imperial Crowns of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, are solely and rightfully come to our sovereign Lord George by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. For preventing dangers that may arise at this juncture from papists or other persons disastected to His Majesty government, and for preserving the publick peace of this Kingdom. We the Lords Justices and Council, do hereby strictly charge and require all papists licensed to keep and wear arms, forthwith to deliver up their respective arms, and all ammunition in their possession, to the next justice of the peace, or chief magistrate where such persons do reside, who are hereby required to give receipt for the said arms and ammunition, and to keep the same till further order. ...
Ireland. Lords Justices and Council.Date: 1714- Books
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Yorkshire, (to wit) The delivery of the goal of our sovereign lord the King, of his County of York, held at the Castle of York, in and for the said County, on Monday the Seventh Day of March, in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, now King of Great Britain, &c. - Before Sir William Lee, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of King's-Bench, and Sir Thomas Abney, Knight, one of his Majesty's Justices of his Court of Common-Pleas, Justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to deliver his Goal there of the Prisoners therein being, &c.
Yorkshire (England)Date: 1748]- Books
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At the general sessions of the peace of our Lord the King held by adjournment at the castle of Exon, in and for the County aforesaid, the Tenth Day of June, in the Thirty-First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, now King of Great Britain and so forth, and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-One, before John Burridge Cholwich, Esquire, John Laroche, Esquire, and John Andrew, Clerk, Justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord the King, in and for the County aforesaid, and also to hear and determine divers ... Trespasses, and other Misdemeanors committed in the said County.
Exeter (England). Quarter Session.Date: [1791]- Books
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To the constables and churchwardens of the parish of [blank] in the [blank] of [blank] and to each of them. Whereas complaint hath been made unto us, two of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the said in Writing by of the Parish of in the said that [blank] hath refused to pay his small tythes, offerings, oblations and obventions ... Wherefore we the said Justices being neither of us Patrons of the said Parish of or any ways interested in the said Tythes, Offerings, Oblations or Obventions ... And whereas it appears unto us the said Justices that the said hath had Notice of the said Order and Abjudication, and hath refused and still doth refuse ... That they, you or one of you do make publick Sale of the said Goods and Chattels, and pay to the said so much of the Money arising by such Sale as will satisfy him the said Sums of and to him so adjudged as aforesaid, and retain to yourselves the Sum of for making and keeping the said Distress (which we the said Justices do hereby adjudge reasonable Charges for so doing) and render the Overplus (if any be) to the said and hereof fail not at your Perils. Given under our Hands and Seals this Day of in Year of the Reign of now King of Great Britain, &c. And in the Year of our Lord 17
Date: [1755?]