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3 giorni fa · The city of Cambridge: Modern history. A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, the City and University of Cambridge. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1959. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
4 giorni fa · Again in 1702 the Mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses of Cambridge petitioned the Lord High Admiral for armed protection of the ships that imported sea-coal, salt, and other merchandise for the needs of the town and University of Cambridge from Newcastle and other foreign parts.
5 giorni fa · Discovering no such tree at Cambridge, he went to Oxford, and finding a likely tree in Gloucester Hall garden, began at once to enlarge and widen that college; but soon after he found the real tree of his dream, outside the north gate of Oxford, and on that spot he founded St. John's College.
5 giorni fa · The husband of Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark and grandfather of Lord Frederick Windsor – who tragically died in a military air crash aged 39. Prince George, Duke of Kent, younger brother of King Edward VIII and King George VI became the first member of the Royal Family in more than 450 years to die on active military duty.
2 giorni fa · House of Lords. The House of Lords is the second chamber of UK Parliament. It plays a crucial role in examining bills, questioning government action and investigating public policy. Latest news from the Lords. What's on in the Lords 2-6 September. Discover what's coming up in the House of Lords this week. 30 August 2024.
5 giorni fa · Earlier came the work of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, who, more than perhaps any other man, can be hailed as the founder of biochemistry. Noted Cambridge scholars in other fields have been the naturalist Charles Darwin, the economist John Maynard Keynes, and the historian G.M. Trevelyan.
3 giorni fa · 6th May, 1882 - The new Chief Secretary for Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and the permanent under-secretary, Thomas Henry Burke, by a new terrorist group calling themselves the "Irish Invincibles."
