the source material is patchy and in several instances, contestable. From genealogical sources, Elizabeth Marsh can be located as a woman who lived from 1735 to 1785, who had two children, and was a wife, daughter and niece. From her own writing in published travel narratives, we know that...
Robert de Washington of Warton was a generous benefactor to the village church and also had the stone plaque or shield placed on the exterior tower wall. Washington shield at Warton Church, Lancs. Sydney Moorhouse (1958) says that: “Here, on the outside of the western wall of the fiftee...
It is always (to me!) an interesting story how aLost Sheepgets found – or at least any book detective out there would so describe the thrill of locating a book considered lost to eternity in some auction sale or a the stacks of a library or in someone’s private collection. And such...
An early joint-stock company (the Dutch East India Company was the first to issue public stock). The company's main trade was in cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpetre, tea and also, opium. It was granted an English Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December
A sheet for shielding a room, conductive cables, magnetic recording media, inside shield rooms and other objects, from the effects of a magnetic field. The sheet is used as a magnetic shield by wrapping it around the objects or areas which need shielding from the effects of a magnetic field...