Stepping Stones CD publication. Contents of the Norfolk Poll Book Lists of Names of land freeholders Places of freehold Occupiers Names of the land if not themselves Adobe Reader 5... More Info
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Kathleen Hapgood 978 1 911592 07 5 The Bristol Library Society took over the old Jacobean library founded by Robert Redwood and operated it until they in turn handed it over to the City Council in 1894. This account therefore illustrates the transition from private charity, via personal subscription, to the rates as the basis for public library provision; and features some of the debates ...More Info
Elizabeth White 978 1 911592 06 8 Keynsham in the late nineteenth century seemed just the place for a free non-denominational Board School under Forster’s 1870 Education Act. But Vicar Gray campaigned successfully against this, and at the same time expanded the Parochial Schools which continued to provide all the primary schooling for the children of the poor in Keynsham until 1954. Her...More Info
Richard Coates 978 1 911592 24 2 Henry John Wilkins was a progressive force in local politics before entering the great tradition of English parsons who have been active local historians. The fact that he was particularly a historian of Westbury-on-Trym makes it appropriate that this memoir and detailed bibliography should appear in the year that this parish celebrates its first thirteen ...More Info
Michael Whitfield 978 1 911592 26 6 Richard Smith lived in one of the great ages of culture, learning and debate in Bristol. He was a contemporary and colleague of the great Thomas Beddoes. Robert Southey was his neighbour, and Humphry Davy and Samuel Coleridge lectured in his time. Smith himself was a very successful practising surgeon, a lecturer, a notable collector of medical records ...More Info
Nicholas Orme 978 1 911592 27 3 Bristol was one of England’s leading centres of education and literary culture by the end of the Middle Ages, with schools at several levels. Books were owned and used by clergy, laymen and women, and the city had its own authors, producing works on topics as various as history, topography, civic affairs, alchemy, and poetry. Nicholas Orme is emerit...More Info