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4 dni temu · Gloucester's development as a commercial and manufacturing centre in the mid and late 19th century and the growth of a large working-class population had a distinct influence on its social and cultural life.
3 dni temu · Gloucester, which was the shire town of Gloucestershire from the late Anglo-Saxon period, was sometimes styled civitas in the 11th and 12th centuries. Later it was always styled a town or borough until 1541, when on the founding the see of Gloucester, it was made a city by charter.
4 dni temu · The Sunday schools started in the city in 1780 by the printer Robert Raikes and Thomas Stock, curate of St. John the Baptist and master of the College school, though certainly not the first, proved to be the most influential: the publicity given to the venture by Raikes through his newspaper, the Gloucester Journal, was the main impetus for the ...
3 dni temu · Although numbered Five, this is the eighth volume to be published of the Victoria History of Gloucestershire and the seventh since the revival of the Gloucestershire History in 1958.
2 dni temu · A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 9, Bradley Hundred. The Northleach Area of the Cotswolds . Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 2001.
4 dni temu · This volume contains the histories of the 22 parishes in the hundreds of Brightwells Barrow and Rapsgate, extending from the Cotswold escarpment above Gloucester to the Thames at Lechlade and including much of the Churn, Coln, and Leach valleys.
5 dni temu · Professor Clark's chapter on Early Modern Gloucester is based on research which was generously funded by the Economic and Social Science Research Council and for which valuable assistance in research was provided by Dr. P. Morgan and Dr. A. Foster.
