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Union News, issue 358
Archive Item

Coin

Denomination: denarius serratus

Date(s): 70 BCE

Issuer/creator: Quintus Fufius Calenus; Mucius Scaevola; Mucius Cordus

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Textile

Class H Woollen and Worsted Fabrics, Autumn 1903

Yorkshire College

1903

A hardback with black covers, red labels and gold text on spine. Book no.1. Contains woven fabric samples most of which have coloured striped or speckled woven patterning on a black or dark blue gro...

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Textile

Soieries Été 1955 pour échantillonnage Été 1956 Envoi D

Courtaulds Ltd.; Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1955-1956

Softback with buff coloured covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples including ottoman, jacquard weave, toile, epingle, satin, surah and taffeta. Woven patterning in 1-5 colours...

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Textile

sampler

Pesel, Louisa F (1947)

late 19th-mid 20th Century

Fragment of natural coloured linen Aida fabric with an all over ‘square’ geometric design worked in cross stitches. The edges of the canvas are coarsly overcast. A paper label was pinned to the ca...

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The Dark age of the theatre.

24-Jan-1931

Nation & Athenaeum, 24th January 1931, pp 548 and 550, Reviews A Nicoll, A History of early nineteenth century drama;

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Name: Grimshaw, Tabitha

Reference: Carlton Hill A1

Meeting: Knaresborough MM 1721-53

Pages: 361, 363-4 later Hustler


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A new and correct mapp of Middlesex, Essex and Hertfordshire : with the roads, rivers, sea-coasts &c. actually surveyed by John Warburton, Joseph Bland and Payler Smyth

Warburton, John (1682-1759); Bland, Joseph; Smyth, Payler

[ca. 1725]

Date from: Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 123.

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