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Hace 4 días · Located in the heart of Castle Country and ideally located for the Whiskey Trail, the Bunkhouse is a Four Star Rated Hostel attached to the Gordon Arms Hotel,a listed building in the conservation square of Huntly.
Hace 4 días · Gordon Rural Action chief officer Emma Selway-Grant shared an update on works at the charity. Demolition works have been completed, centred on the Bargain Box charity shop which had an old roof which faced constant leaks and an expensive maintenance bill.
Hace 18 horas · Twenty-eight persons were killed and nearly seventy injured in this brutal struggle. The execution of the Cato Street conspirators before Newgate, on Monday, May 1, 1820, was one of the most ghastly scenes ever witnessed by a London mob. Thistlewood, the leader of this conspiracy, had been in the Marines.
Hace 5 días · Price: £35.00. If there is a popular image of George II, it derives from the Whig historians of the 19th century, who established him as the counterpoint to their chief subject of 18th-century interest, his grandson and successor, George III. Claims that George III from 1760 wilfully disrupted a working two-party system, and unconstitutionally ...
Hace 4 días · Though issues to the household dropped steadily to £287,130 by 1765–6 ( Fig. 5 ), there was an inevitable accumulation of debt. As early as 1761–2 total civil expenditure averaged £985,231 a year. This figure fell to £908,563 a year in 1768–9, but despite a helpful surplus of £172,000 left over from George II's frugal last years, the ...
Hace 4 días · Chesterton (xiv cent.). The parish of Chesterton contains 1,349 acres of land and lies to the south of the River Nene, which separates it from Northamptonshire. A feeder of the Nene, called Billing Brook, forms the western boundary of the parish. The altitude varies from 28 ft. to 179 ft. above Ordnance datum, the village being about 70 ft.
Hace 5 días · George II, King and Elector. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780300118926; 315pp.; Price: £25.00. A detailed biography of George II in English has been needed for some time. His is one of the longer reigns of an early modern British monarch (1727–60), encompassing both the final military defeat of the Stuart cause in 1745 ...
