Author: Edward Griffin PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Billerica (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The Mother-town of Billericay in England
Author: Edward Griffin PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Billerica (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The Mother-Town of Billericay in England (Classic Reprint)
Author: Edward Griffin PorterPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282546373
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Excerpt from The Mother-Town of Billericay in England Petre, who holds a court-leet and baron annually in the spring, at the former of which the constables and other officers for the internal regulation of the town are appointed. Petty sessions are held at the town hall, over the market-house, on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Invention of Essex
Author: Tim BurrowsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781788166775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Down and Out in Paris and London
Author: George OrwellPublisher: A G Printing & Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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There were eccentric characters in the hotel. The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. Some of the lodgers in our hotel lived lives that were curious beyond words. There were the Rougiers, for instance, an old, ragged, dwarfish couple who plied an extraordinary trade. They used to sell postcards on the Boulevard St Michel. The curious thing was that the postcards were sold in sealed packets as pornographic ones, but were actually photographs of chateaux on the Loire; the buyers did not discover this till too late, and of course never complained. The Rougiers earned about a hundred francs a week, and by strict economy managed to be always half starved and half drunk. The filth of their room was such that one could smell it on the floor below. According to Madame F., neither of the Rougiers had taken off their clothes for four years.
History of Billerica, Massachusetts
Author: Henry Allen HazenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Billerica (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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History of Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Author: Wilson WatersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chelmsford (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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British Books in Print
Author: English Poor Law History
Author: Sidney WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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The Invasion of 1910
Author: William Le QueuxPublisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3736817959
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
The Invasion of 1910 is a 1906 novel written mainly by William Le Queux (with H. W. Wilson providing the naval chapters). It is one of the more famous examples of Invasion literature. It is viewed by some as an example of pre-World War I Germanophobia. It can also be viewed as prescient, as it preached the need to prepare for war with Germany. The novel was originally commissioned by Alfred Harmsworth as a serial which appeared in the Daily Mail from 19 March 1906. The story rewritten to feature towns and villages with high Daily Mail readership, greatly increased the newspaper's circulation and made a small fortune for Le Queux; it was translated into twenty-seven languages, and over one million copies of the book edition were sold. The idea for the novel is alleged to have originated from Field Marshal Earl Roberts, who regularly lectured English schoolboys on the need to prepare for war. The book takes the form of a military history. William Tufnell Le Queux (1864-1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat, a traveller, a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available.
History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts
Author: Josiah Howard TemplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brookfield (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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