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Map to show the attractions of the South Bank Exhibition as part of the Festival of Britain in 1951. The Festival of Britain was originally intended to mark the 100 years since the Great Exhibition ...

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This database celebrates the 18,000 plus individuals who fought in the Battle of the Trafalgar on the side of the Royal Navy. The victory over the combined fleets of France and Spain, as a result of ...

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The sixteenth century was a period of population rise and price inflation. The social pressure on those with wealth to display it was considerable. Fortunes were poured into building grand houses and ...

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Most peasants in the thirteenth century lived below a reasonable subsistence level and this standard declined during the century. Titow (English Rural Society) demonstrated that between ten and ...

The records described in this list are stored mainly in the archive room at Willen Priory. Some printed papers and the Kelham lecture schemes are kept on shelves immediately outside the room.