The construction contract for Holborn Viaduct was awarded on the 7th May 1866 and on the 6th November 1869 it was opened by Queen Victoria. One of the many 19th century “improvements” to the City, designed to address growing congestion along the streets, and to build a City that mirrored ...
in 1985 the Vatican banned Father Leonardo Boff from making public statements. Some Roman Catholic countries maintained their own equivalent of the Index. The Irish Free State, as then was, banned all of the works of Synge and Yeats, along with other dangerous books such asModern Utopia...
The manor of Walsoken with appurtenances in Walsoken, Walton and Wallope, Norffolk, came to him in 1420. He had to pay to Henry archbishop of Canterbury, Henry bishop of Winchester, Thomas bishop of Durham, Thomas duke of Exeter, Ralph earl of Westmerland, Henry Fitz Hugh, Walter Hun...