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19th Century British Reform Bills: House of Commons & Parliament
The film discusses the evolution of voting rights in 19th century England ... for representation in Parliament amid a political landscape dominated by the aristocracy. The narrative illustrates ...
Country Life21d
Historic England acquires 8,000-strong collection of early landscape photographs
More than 8,000 black-and-white images, amounting to a collection of some of the finest early English landscape photography ... spent her life building the collection of 19th- and early-20th-century ...
Naija Gist - Latest28d
This is the oldest kingdom in Nigeria - It's not the Benin Kingdom
and economic landscapes. Prior to British colonial rule in the late 19th century, many indigenous polities flourished across the region. In the northern part of present-day Nigeria, the Hausa ...
The New York Times12d
He Fell in Love With a Venetian Palazzo. But Why Did It Seem So Familiar?
On the eve of leaving the city for good, an English ... pair of 18th-century paintings of regatta-winning Italian rowers — “rather kitsch,” he says — hang alongside a landscape photograph ...
Berkshire Eagle20d
A look at the pieces sold at Sotheby’s from the collection of philanthropist, Stockbridge resident Aso O. Tavitian
“Aso himself was very much collecting in the old-fashioned tradition of furnishing a house, and he really, really loved classic English furniture from what we call the mid-Georgian period, the ...
Time18d
The Pekoe Trail
Up in the Sri Lankan highlands, a 19th-century transport network for tea ... colonial-era dirt roads and railway tracks built by the British for exporting tea. Though local companies have led ...
MutualArt.com5d
British School, 19th Century
Some 70 art galleries from the UK and around the world are exhibiting at the 12th annual Art London, which opens in the special marquee ...
MutualArt.com12d
British School, 19th Century
The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
The Daring 19th-Century Reformers Who Sought to End Prostitution by Offering Financial and Emotional Support to Urban Sex Workers
As a member of the American Female Moral Reform Society (AFMRS), a group dedicated to preventing prostitution in cities in the early and mid-19th century, Prior was uniquely equipped to help women ...
The Tribune15d
It was in the 1940s that the hill capital of the British Raj directly came to ‘host’ Burma, but the link goes back to the 19th century
The Tribune, the largest selling English daily in North India, publishes news and views without any bias or prejudice of any kind. Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language and ...
Wales Online28d
19th century former Gower pub proposed to be torn down for nine new homes to be built
The Greyhound Inn dated from the 19th Century and was well-regarded for its real ale and food. The planning committee heard at a meeting in 2018 that the pub generated £1.13 million in 2015.