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1 day ago · The tobacconist William Gardner lived at No. 3 Broad Street with his wife and two daughters at the time of the 1871 census. By 1914, this address housed E. M. Liddell’s Berlin wool depository. In 1882, Arthur Pearson bought Alderman James Stanley Lowe’s shop at 31 Cornmarket Street and ran his own ironmonger’s shop there until 1912, when ...
5 days ago · The king's houses were repaired, sometimes extensively, throughout the Middle Ages, but few notable additions were made except for a new tower over the king's chamber in the mid 15th century. Henry VII spent over £ 4,000 on works at Woodstock between 1494 and 1503, including major alterations to the hall, probably reroofing.
2 days ago · Alexander von Humboldt. Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. [2] He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835).
2 days ago · New College Arms. (17) New College stands between New College Lane and Queen's Lane and the Town Wall. The walls are of local rubble and ashlar and the roofs are covered with lead and slates. The college was founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester.
1 day ago · John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was the king of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century.
5 days ago · The Crystal Palace Handel Festivals, which began in 1857 and continued through 1926, were the essence of an imagined British community that both espoused and represented nationalist and at times imperialist ideals, akin to those described by Benedict Anderson (Anderson 1991, 6–7). One reason to discuss this choral community as imagined is ...
1 day ago · Early life Hirohito in 1902 as an infant Emperor Taishō's four sons in 1921: Hirohito, Takahito, Nobuhito and Yasuhito. Hirohito was born at Aoyama Palace in Tokyo (during the reign of his grandfather, Emperor Meiji) on 29 April 1901, the first son of 21-year-old Crown prince Yoshihito (the future Emperor Taishō) and 16-year-old Crown Princess Sadako (the future Empress Teimei).
