More importantly, points of connection among these writers suggest the borrowings, physical and intellectual, that the presence of London's administrative library at the Guildhall made possible. This article focuses in particular on Robert Bale (.1410–73), correcting some errors in his biography, ...
The origins of the Guild of St George go back to 1376, but it was not until 1406 that the Guild began to build a hall, using a parcel of land reclaimed from the River Ouse. The Guildhall was is use by 1428. Perhaps the reclaimed riverside land wasn't stable, for the Guild later ...
Most of the collection dates from 1771, with some deeds dating back to 1585. Please note that the Captains’ Registers are held at London Metropolitan Archives and the rest of the archive is available at the Guildhall Library. London Metropolitan ArchivesGuildhall Library...
(John Strype’s Survey of London and Lady Elizabeth Denton’s will Guildhall Labrary S 9171/15 f/108v.) The content of the will is conventional and it is perhaps not surprising that Elizabeth Denton was a pious woman given the piety of Lady Margaret Beaufort. Her eldest brother’s family...
The government of the city was by a Lord Mayor and council elected from the ranks of the merchant guilds. These guilds effectively ran the city and controlled commerce. Each guild had its own hall and their own coat of arms, but there was also the Guildhall (1411-40) where representatives...
A native of London, and the child of Afro-Trinidadian parents, Lennie James attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In the early 1990s, James made several appearances in television movies and, in 1995, landed the role of D.C. Bruce Hannaford on the cop show "Out of the Blue...
•A new exhibition exploring the life of one of the City of London’s most famous Lord Mayors has opened at the City of London’s Guildhall Library.Marking the library’s 600th anniversary,Whittington, the Man, the Myth and the Catuses chapbooks (small printed booklets used for street li...
I found it at a wonderful booksale held in the Guildhall in the city of York…a story for another time. This volume presents reprints from government material produced during the war, much of which was the work of a young woman named Marguerite Patten, whose creativity helped inspire home ...
A native of London, and the child of Afro-Trinidadian parents, Lennie James attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In the early 1990s, James made several appearances in television movies and, in 1995, landed the role of D.C. Bruce Hannaford on the cop show "Out of the Blu...
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