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Great Britain

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Narcissus Luttrell Ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: MS-GAR-037
Abstract Copied from dealer description: "Narcissus Luttrell, 17 September 1724, MS Memorandum on Purchasing News & Print in His Absence; Memorands Left with servants Nan Bird & Mary Stevenson at Chelsea on [this instant?] 17 September 1724." Narcissus Luttrell (1657–1732) was an English historian, diarist, and bibliographer, and briefly Member of Parliament for two different Cornish boroughs. He published a chronicle of the Parliaments of England and Great Britain from 1678 to 1714,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1722-1724

On the Justice and Policy of Repealing the Laws Prohibiting the Emigration of Artizans and the Exportation of Machinery.

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030058121]
Identifier: MS-HUT-007
Scope and Contents The bound, holographic petition (144 pages) which forms this collection is entitled "On the Justice and Policy of Repealing the Laws Prohibiting the Emigration of Artizans and the Exportation of Machinery." Although the petition is unsigned, it is likely that it was written by a member of Parliament in 1825 during the period when the Select Committee on the Laws Relating to the Export of Tools and Machinery was convened. On page 6, the petitioner describes himself as a "novice politician."...
Dates: 1824-1825

Philip D. Curtin papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0364
Abstract

Philip D. Curtin (1922-2009) was a historian and author. The collection of author and historian, Philip D. Curtin, consists of materials related to his teaching and writing career dating from 1955 to 1993.

Dates: 1955-1993

Samuel Oldknow business records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-HUT-009
Abstract

Samuel Oldknow was the first successful maker of British muslin in the 18th century. The records, dating from 1787 to 1811, consist of approximately 75 items which include correspondence, pay-tickets, receipts, ledgers, account and memorandum books, shop-notes, and documents.

Dates: 1787 - 1811

Sir Thomas Overbury manuscript

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030055689]
Identifier: MS-0334
Abstract

The collection consists of one bound handwritten manuscript written in 1616. The author is unknown. There is a dedication "from a poor country man" to Sir Thomas Bromley, possibly the English judge (1530-1587) who presided over the trial (1586) of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Dates: 1616

Sir William Brown correspondence to Abbott Lawrence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030118909]
Identifier: MS-0717
Abstract Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet DL (1784–1864) was a British merchant and banker, founder of the banking-house of Brown, Shipley & Co. and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons. He sailed with his father and mother for the United States of America, and at Baltimore, Maryland, where his father continued the linen trade in which he had been engaged in Ireland, received in the counting-house his commercial education. He was known for his philalanthropy, particularly in...
Dates: 1845-1846

Thomas Hollingsworth collection of Genealogical Data on the British Peerage

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0359
Abstract

Thomas Henry Hollingsworth was a British demographer born in England, May 10, 1932. The collection consists of genealogical material on approximately 28,000 individuals dating from 1603-1938.

Dates: 1603-1938

Victorian-era scrapbook collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0575
Abstract

Personal assemblages illustrating the Victorian preoccupation with collecting and arranging pictures, 1876-1896.

Dates: 1876-1896

William Cobbett petition

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030058105]
Identifier: MS-HUT-018
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of one hand-written petition to the House of Commons, February 15, 1830. The bound manuscript numbers eight pages. Cobbett's address was presented during the end of Tory rule. In the petition, cobbett argued for economic and political reform and the relief in agricultural areas where the farmers were seriously deprived.

Dates: 1830 February 15

William Thomson Kelvin materials

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030055580]
Identifier: MS-0247
Abstract

Lord William Thomson Kelvin (1824-1907) was a distinguished British mathematician and physicist. Collection consists of four letters of Lord Kelvin, ranging in date from 1878 to 1899, to Henry Dyer. Also in the collection are invoices and correspondence relating to the publication in 1904 of Lord Kelvin's lectures at the Johns Hopkins University.

Dates: 1878-1899, 1904