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The Ryedale historian

Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Helmsley and District Group

1966

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The Ryedale historian

Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Helmsley and District Group

1967

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The Ryedale historian

Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Helmsley and District Group

1965

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Collection of extracts from religious writers and historians compiled by Nicholas Hill.

Hill, Nicholas

c.1600-1610

Divided into 53 sections containing extracts from a large number of different works, including Thomas Stapleton's 'Promptuarium', Petrarch's 'De remediis utriusque fortunÁ', and the 'Vita Jesu Christ...

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Title: On Gibbon the historian being made a Lord of Trade by Lord North for which he

deserted opposition

Author: Fox, Charles James

Attribution: Charles Fox

Date(s): 1779 ?

Manuscript: Lt 11

Contents: Satire on Edward Gibbon for accepting a ministerial post and thus himself

exhibiting 'decline'; with some satire on George III

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Browning, Oscar to Stoker, Bram

Browning, Oscar

26 Nov 1897; 11 Jul 1899

Sender was a writer and an historian.

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Caius Crispus Sallustius the historian : translated into English. To which are prefixed the Life and character of the author and his works

Sallust (86 B.C.-34 B.C); Rowe, John (1709-1726)

1715

Page vii has Salllust in running head.

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Notes on politics

1920s

Contains quotations from various politicians and historians. Possibly from 1920s.

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The archives of the Leeds Education Authority (1903-60)

Meyer, W R

[1991]

Reprinted from: Local historian, v.21, no.4 (Nov. 1991).

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Ancient topography of London : containing not only views of buildings... but some account of places and customs either unknown, or overlooked by the London historians

Smith, John Thomas (1766-1833)

1815

Added col. t.p., engraved: Topography of London, drawn and etched by J. R. Smith, intended as an additional accompaniment to the celebrated work of Pennant.

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Dr Jan Betley

1967

One letter addressed to Harrison from Jan Betley, a Polish Historian then based at Bangor University.

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