Author: John William BurgonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham; Compiled Chiefly from His Correspondence Preserved in Her Majesty's State Paper Office ... by John William Burgon
Author: John William BurgonThe Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham
Author: John William BurgonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham
Author: John William BurgonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368751875
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.
The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Grisham
Author: John William BurgonSir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College
Author: Francis Ames-LewisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351899929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
In March 1997 the Society for Renaissance Studies and Gresham College together organised a conference to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gresham College’s foundation. The papers delivered at that conference and assembled in this book examine why Gresham College was established, and how its purposes and activities dovetailed with the socio-cultural life of Elizabethan and Stuart London. The first group of papers considers the social and mercantile career of Sir Thomas Gresham within the commercial centre of Elizabethan London; why he wished to establish Gresham College; and what functions he may have intended it to serve. The second group sets the academic activities of the College and its professors within the broader context of contemporary intellectual life. Papers in this group consider in what ways early Gresham professors contributed in particular to developments in the more practical disciplines such as geometry and astronomy.
The Tourist in Portugal
Author: William Henry HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portugal
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
“Jenning's” Landscape Annual
Author: William Henry HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Bibliotheca Norfolciensis
Author: Jeremiah James ColmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Norfolk (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Jennings' Landscape Annual
Author: W. H. HarrisonMasters of the Post
Author: Duncan Campbell-SmithPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141973226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The origins of the Post Office go back to the early years of the Tudor monarchy: Brian Tuke, a former King's Bailiff in Sandwich, was acknowledged as the first 'Master of the Posts' by Cardinal Wolsey in 1512, and went on to build up a network of 'postmasters' across England for Henry VIII. Over the following five hundred years the Royal Mail expanded to an unimaginable degree to become the largest employer in the country, and the face of the British state for most people in their everyday lives. But it also faced the demands of an increasingly commercial marketplace. With the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, the possibility of privatising the Royal Mail has prompted passionate arguments - and has added immeasurably to the difficulties of running it. In charting the whole of this extraordinary story, Duncan Campbell-Smith recounts a series of remarkable tales, including how postal engineers built the first programmable computer for the wartime code-breakers of Bletchley Park and how the Royal Mail managed to successfully continue delivering post to the front lines during two world wars, but also how they failed to avert the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He brings to life many of the dominant personalities in the Royal Mail's history - from Rowland Hill, who imposed a uniform penny post and set the great Victorian expansion on its way, to Tony Benn who championed the modernisation of the service in the 1960s and Tom Jackson who led the postal workers' biggest union through fifteen frequently stormy years up to 1982. This is the first complete history of the Royal Mail up to the present day, based on its comprehensive archives, and including the first detailed account of the past half-century of Britain's postal history, made possible by privileged access to confidential records. Today's debate over the future of the Royal Mail is shown to be just the ;atest chapter in a centuries-old conflict between its roles raising revenue and serving the public. Will its employees remain, like Brian Tuke's postmasters, servants of the Crown? This book could hardly appear at a more timely moment.