Author: John BailliePublisher:
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Category : Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne and Its Vicinity
Author: John BailliePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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History of Newcastle and Gateshead: Fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Author: Richard WelfordPublisher:
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Category : Gateshead (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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History of Newcastle and Gateshead ...: In the 14th and 15th centuries. [1884
Author: Richard WelfordPublisher:
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Category : Gateshead (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Manuscripts, Books, Roman and Other Antiquities Belonging to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon TynePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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A Catalogue of the Manuscripts, Books, Roman and Other Antiquities
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon TynePublisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County: pt. 1. Northumberland
Author: Edward Wedlake BrayleyPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 726
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County
Author: John BrittonPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Life on the Tyne
Author: Peter D. WrightPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317105281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Whilst the early modern period has long been recognized as witnessing a growth in trade and consumerism, the majority of studies to date have tended to focus upon London and southern England. In order to provide a more balanced understanding of the dynamics at work on a national level, this book explores the local economy and waterborne trades of Newcastle and the River Tyne, in North East England. Drawing upon a variety of primary sources - including parish records, probate inventories, Newcastle Exchequer port books and the previously unpublished diary of an apprentice hostman - none of which have been examined previously in this context, the study adds significantly to our understanding of the growing community in North East England. In particular, it underlines the expansion of a thriving middling class with an associated culture of consumption driving a rapid increase in the import, and often re-export of a wide range of luxury items of food, clothing and soft furnishings. As the coal trade and a flourishing general trade with London and other home and overseas ports grew, the book highlights the major impact upon the size and variety of work in the port, and the subsequent increasing size and complexity of the water trades community and its associated business networks.
Sir Robert Chambers
Author: Thomas M. CurleyPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299151508
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803) was a literary as well as a legal man. Friend and collaborator of Samuel Johnson, professor of English law at Oxford University, and one of the four judges on the first Supreme Court of India, Chambers was an enormously influential figure in the eighteenth-century British empire. This book is the first authoritative biography of Chambers and is also the first major contribution in decades to historical scholarship on Johnson. It demonstrates Chambers's important role in early English legal education, in Samuel Johnson's life and political thinking, and in the formation of British India during a period of active cultural exchange between East and West. The cooperation of Chambers's descendants and the discovery of all his judicial notebooks have given Curley access to a splendid archival collection of rare documents about Sir Robert's private life and public career. Curley adds important dimensions to political and legal history by recounting the establishment of the Vinerian Chair of English law at Oxford University and by documenting long-hidden activities, motives, and decisions in the stormy foundation of British India, beginning with Chambers's farsighted role in the century's most infamous criminal case, the prosecution of Maharajah Nuncomar in 1775. Sir Robert Chambers is the first analysis of Chambers's groundbreaking commingling of English law and Indian practice, as detailed in seventy-two volumes of his judicial notebooks recovered in Calcutta. As an Indian judge, Chambers founded the enduring hybrid heritage of Anglo-Indian law on which the modern constitution of the Republic of India still rests. This book also provides the first full account of Chambers's close friendship with Samuel Johnson and their collaboration on a survey of the British constitution, which profoundly influenced the later writings of both men. Curley reveals Johnson's literary and political interest in India, and his call for encyclopedic study of the East by the West, a call heeded by Chambers and Sir William Jones in founding the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Amassing the largest library of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Western World, Chambers contributed significantly to European awareness of the riches of ancient Indian literature. Lively and readable, this authoritative biography examines the relationships and activities of prominent men in eighteenth-century England, and it supplements Curley's two-volume edition of Chambers's and Johnson's A Course of Lectures on the English Law. It will interest readers curious about multiculturalism--two centuries before the term existed--as it developed under the British empire. All scholars of legal and literary history and of Asian and British studies, as well as lovers of biography, should relish this absorbing and well-researched history.
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