In the 1907-08 auction season at Christie’s, John Albert Cooling won bids on 51 lots[11], among them, picking up 7 pictures by E.M. Wimperis, 4 by T.S. Cooper, and 2 by D. Cox, all artists favoured by Sampson, Mitchell, and other members of the ring. In 1910, John.A. Coo...
The other day I was searching through boxes of old photographs and came across a bundle of colour negatives which turned out to be photographs that I had taken of the Royal Alexandra back in 1988. It would have been great to have had them when I wrote the blog post on theformer Royal ...
John Somerville, not Lawson, designed the janitor’s house. Somerville’s main salaried employment was as the Otago Education Board architect. He also worked for the Otago High Schools Board of Governors, the body responsible for the management of Dunedin’s two public high schools. William Dunca...
The three leading "crusaders" in the union were Althorp's grandson, the fifth Earl; the conservative member of parliament for South Leicestershire and leading light of the Charity Organisation Society, Albert Pell; and a local clergyman, William Bury. [End Page 957] In addition to describing ...
… In a 1906 survey of the first large cohort of Labour Party Members of Parliament, 16 percent claimed that Dickens was the author or work which had influenced them the most strongly, a percentage point behind Ruskin, but two in front of the Bible. … (查看原文) 然诺 2017-10-21 19...
The State Taxation Acts Amendment Bill 2019 (Vic), introduced to Parliament on 27 May 2019, contains numerous important changes to Victoria's stamp duty and land tax laws. In an effort to fill the large gap left by dwindling stamp duty receipts in a falling property market, theState Ta...
In 1779 Parliament passed the Penitentiary Act, which authorised the building of one or more national penitentiaries characterised by strict discipline and hard labour. Although the penitentiaries were never built, the courts began to sentence large numbers of convicts to terms of imprisonment, an...
The House of Commons consisted of about 600 men called members of Parliament (MPs), who were elected to represent the counties and boroughs of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. England had many more representatives than the other three nations, by virtue of its status as first among ...
Theprestigeof the individual members of Parliament was high, and the fragmentation of parties after 1846 allowed them considerable independence. Groups of members supporting particular economic interests, especially the railways, could often determine parliamentary strategies. Nevertheless, contemporaries feared...
… In a 1906 survey of the first large cohort of Labour Party Members of Parliament, 16 percent claimed that Dickens was the author or work which had influenced them the most strongly, a percentage point behind Ruskin, but two in front of the Bible. …引自The Victorian novel and its ...