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2 giorni fa · Oxford. 19 June 2024. Comedy legend Sir Michael Palin has been awarded an honorary degree from the University of Oxford in a ceremony that was affected by a nearby pro-Palestinian protest. Known ...
5 giorni fa · The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £31. 11. 3.; net income, £423, with a house; patrons, the Principal and Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford: the tithes were commuted for land in 1769. The church has a fine tower and spire, and a rich porch: the spire has been three times struck by lightning, in 1720, 1794, and 1797.
1 giorno fa · The Monty Python star began writing comedy while enrolled at Oxford's Brasenose College, where he read modern history, in the early 1960s. There, he met Terry Jones, with whom he become a ...
5 giorni fa · Early in the 17th century the amount of arable land in the parish, calculated from two excellent maps of the Corpus estate, dated 1605, was about 600 acres, or nearly half the whole area. Brasenose College had added to its holding, and Corpus Christi College had held two half-yardlands and one quarter since 1529.
4 giorni fa · The Blackwell Companions to British History enjoy a reputation for quality of scholarship, clarity of text and range. This 28-chapter volume is a worthy addition to the series, written by a distinguished group of specialists in the field (some well-established but also some younger scholars) who between them cover a rather broader chronological framework than is usually meant by ‘later ...
4 giorni fa · Under the Local Government Act of 1894 two civil parishes were formed, of Clayton, and Clayton Urban, the latter being included in Burgess Hill Urban District. (fn. 3) In 1934 a further part was transferred to Burgess Hill, and detached portions to Cuckfield Rural. The soil is loam and sand, and the subsoil clay and sand.
5 giorni fa · Rodborough was originally part of the ecclesiastical parish of Minchinhampton. A church had been built by 1384, (fn. 1) but it was not apparently consecrated or licensed for sacraments until the 1550s, (fn. 2) and it remained a chapel of ease to Minchinhampton (fn. 3) until 1841 when a new ecclesiastical parish and rectory were created.
