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This is a special collection of mostly lesser-known writers from the nineteenth century, all politically active, mostly from the skilled working class. They travelled not for pleasure or to write books, but to find work and spread ideas. These texts are generally shorter, drawn either from autobiographies or the radical press, but give a ...
Despite the pompous howls of his critics - mainly architects - the tone of both the film and the book is actually very optimistic. His views coincide very closely. ••AVision of Britain: APersonalView of Architecture by HRH the Prince ofWales, London, Doubleday, 1989, 160pp., £16.95.
TLDR. Analysis of evidence collected by the Mass-Observation Archive (MOA) found that while some people prefer public library buildings to retain their historic style and feel, others demand contemporary designs like those employed in recent years for new, ‘flagship’ buildings in Norwich, Peckham, Brighton and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Expand.
A vision of Britain through time... Search by placename to view statistics, maps, writings and more. Enter a full postcode or a place name (just a name, NO county) in the search box to access all our content for a place
The Hundred is a division of the Ancient County, also known as a Leet (East Anglia), a Ward (Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland), and Wapentake (Counties of York). It held administrative and judical functions, although the level of administrative responsibilities held by each of these units differed. Its origins are unclear, but possibly ...
Expert Search. Our home page allows simple searching by placename and postcode. Here you can widen searches by using wild-cards or looking for sound-alikes , and narrow searches by specifying the county or nation . You can directly search for administrative units or for descriptions from historical gazetteers: Searches can include asterisks ...
The Great Britain Historical Database holds most of the ingredients from which Vision of Britain was constructed, and much more besides. Material has been gathered since the late 1970s. The largest part of GBHDB is statistical, and the data are organised more conventionally than in Vision of Britain, in thousands of columns within hundreds of ...
