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Pitt the Elder

By: Jeremy Black

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Pitt the Elder

By: Jeremy Black

This book offers an account of the life of one of the greatest statesmen of empire, William Pitt the Elder.

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CUP Archive

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0521398061

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9780521398060

Finsbury's Moated Manor, Medieval Land Use and Later Development in the Finsbury Square Area, Islington

By: Ken Pitt,Jez Taylor,Dr. Jeremy Taylor

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Finsbury's Moated Manor, Medieval Land Use and Later Development in the Finsbury Square Area, Islington

By: Ken Pitt,Jez Taylor,Dr. Jeremy Taylor

Archaeological investigations at seven sites within the Finsbury Square area have revealed important evidence for the medieval and post-medieval development of this former marshy area north of the city walls. At 127-139 Finsbury Pavement, quarry pits may relate to the development of the 12th- to early 13th-century Finsbury manor house, documented from 1272. Features identified within the manor include a gravel courtyard and the fragmentary remains of a building with masonry foundations. A moat existed to the east of the manor house by the 14th/15th centuries, but was backfilled by the end of the 17th century and then built over. Beyond the manor, widespread quarrying and brick manufacturing occurred during the later 15th century. At 27-30 Finsbury Square, large quantities of leather waste may have been dumped in the 15th and 16th centuries from nearby workshops. Quarrying continued on several sites into the late 16th century. A gravel surface and a boundary wall at the Honourable Artillery Company site represent the enclosure of the area to the north of the manor as the New Artillery Ground in the 1640s. A brick flue and a saw pit at 25-32 Chiswell Street reflect the increasingly industrial nature of the area to the west of the New Artillery Ground during the 18th and 19th centuries which is indicated on contempoary maps.

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MOLA Archaeology Studies

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1901992810

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9781901992816

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham Volume 5

January 1794 to December 1797

By: Jeremy Bentham

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The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham Volume 5

January 1794 to December 1797

By: Jeremy Bentham

The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to set up a national scheme for the provision of poor relief. Against the background of the debates on the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he made significant contributions, Bentham worked first on producing a complete penal code, which involved him in detailed explorations of fundamental legal ideas, and then on his panopticon prison scheme. Despite developing a host of original and ground-breaking ideas, contained in a mass of manuscripts, he published little during these years, and remained, at the close of this period, a relatively obscure individual. Nevertheless, these volumes reveal how the foundations were laid for the remarkable rise of Benthamite utilitarianism in the early nineteenth century. Bentham’s life in the mid-1790s was dominated by the panopticon, both as a prison and as a network of workhouses for the indigent. The letters in this volume document in excruciating detail Bentham’s attempt to build a panopticon prison in London, and the opposition he faced from local aristocratic landowners. His brother Samuel was appointed as Inspector-General of Naval Works and in September 1796 married Mary Sophia Fordyce.

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UCL Press

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1911576216

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9781911576211

The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Correspondence: Volume 7

January 1802 to December 1808

By: Jeremy Bentham

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The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Correspondence: Volume 7

January 1802 to December 1808

By: Jeremy Bentham

This is the seventh volume of Bentham's Correspondence, and nearly three-quarters of the letters included in it have not been published before. In 1802 Bentham started to acquire an international reputation through the publication of his Traités de législation civile et pénale. The correspondence contains information about the numerous last-minute revisions which Bentham suggested, about early reactions to the work, and about its translation into Russian. When, in 1802 - 3, Bentham failed in his attempt to get his Panopticon penitentiary project implemented by the government, he turned his attention to adjective law, writing extensively about evidence and procedure, and in 1808 he published a substantial pamphlet on the reform of the Scottish judicature. Exchanges of letters with Sir Samuel Romilly, Francis Horner and others throw some light on the composition of these works and also illuminate aspects of his personal life: his relationships with his brother Samuel, with his Genevan editor Etienne Dumont, with Lord Holland's sister Caroline Fox, to whom he proposed marriage in 1805, and with Aaron Burr, adventurer and former vice-president of the United States, who formed a close friendship with him in 1808.

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Clarendon Press

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0198226144

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Pitt the Elder

Pitt the Elder

Finsbury's Moated Manor, Medieval Land Use and Later Development in the Finsbury Square Area, Islington

Finsbury's Moated Manor, Medieval Land Use and Later Development in the Finsbury Square Area, Islington

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham Volume 5

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham Volume 5

The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Correspondence: Volume 7

The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Correspondence: Volume 7

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