the City of Sin, and fell in love with the streets spectacle. Still, in the 19th century, sidewalk cafés had no future in Anglo-Saxon puritanical countries. Not for a long time. Public lounging while drinking, especially (horror of horrors!) on a Sunday, when every...
also, a tenant employed by the manor for a specific service. Beamer winds the warp on the roller before putting it on the loom in the textile industry Bearer worked undergrpound carrying the coal to the bottom of the pit shaft Beater or Fuller washed and thickened the cloth by treading it...
She entered service alongside her mother, Victoria Eugenie Queen of Spain, and her older sister, Beatriz. (photo: Infanta Maria Cristina (same status as an English Princess) We stop here with this generation, as we have already strayed into the Edwardian Era, and will now define the fashion...
Countess Brownlow, who was closely associated with the project from its inception, conducted the actual ceremony, once she had listened to an address by the chairman of the building committee, a short service by the Vicar, and been presented with a silver trowel. A public luncheon was given a...
on Sunday morning last […] instead of finding service being conducted there, as he expected, he found the men sitting reading the papers, spitting about the floor, and indulging in ribald and indecent talk. The women were also engaged in reading the papers.[34] ...
454using public libraries, or what value they add to the lives of people and the com-munities they serve. During the scoping of the Libraries Building Communitiesresearch many library service managers echoed the comment that senior governmentdecision-makers still have ‘a stereotypical image of the...
1843 First telegraph line in service Factory Act limits women and children under eighteen to a twelve-hour work day Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit begins serialization (volume publication 1844) Irish potato crop fails; beginning of the Great Famine Benjamin Disraeli's Sibyle; or the Two Natio...
“informal” empire was more profitable, if more risky, than investing at home. But it also contributed to domesticobsolescence, particularly in the old industries. Thus, ultimately, there was a price to pay for imperial glory. During the last 20 years of peace before 1914, when Britain’s ...