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Hace 1 día · Well into the 18th century, the favored fuel was wood. This was gradually replaced by coal shipped from mines near the coasts of northern England. As taxes were reduced, this became more affordable, so that by the early 19th century it cost about 40 per cent less than it had a 100 years earlier.
21 de may. de 2024 · 15th century: Restored Private 18th- and 19th-century additions and alterations. Danby Castle: Quadrangular castle 14th century: Fragmentary ruins Private, farm Partly used as farm buildings. Gilling Castle: Tower house 14th century: Intact St. Martin's Ampleforth School: 16th- and 18th-century additions and alterations. Hazlewood Castle: Castle
Hace 2 días · During the long 18th century imported foodstuffs came to play a central role in the everyday experiences of British people. Women sipped tea in parlours and drawing rooms, while men walked out to coffee houses, taking snuff as they strode, before returning home later to enjoy a dinner of savoury dishes and sweet delicacies laced with sugar and spice.
Hace 1 día · Here, of course, the author is on very familiar territory, so East Anglia and the East Midlands are well represented. There are some clear, firm assertions here: ‘There was relatively little woodland in seventeenth-century England’ (p. 20); ‘In the seventeenth century, there were vast areas of unreclaimed wetland in England’ (p. 31).
Hace 4 días · A Roman Catholic school for girls had been founded at the Bar Convent in 1686 and a boys' school was established in Ogleforth in 1796, but the only Protestant nonconformist school was that founded by the Quaker, Esther Tuke, the second wife of the founder of the Retreat, in 1785. The school closed in 1814 but was the nucleus, as it were, from ...
22 de may. de 2024 · English literature, the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are treated separately under American literature, Australian literature, Canadian literature, and New ...
22 de may. de 2024 · Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780719082795; 192pp.; Price: £65.00. Cricket and Community in England: 1800 to the Present Day is an ambitious text. Its six substantive chapters cover cricket’s emergence in a context of ‘early’ or ‘pre-modern’ sports forms, the origins of clubs, changes to organised competitions ...
