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33. From all the above factors we can now deduce the fundamentals of our Defence Policy: The supreme object of British policy is to prevent war, provided that this can be done without prejudicing our ...

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Philip Wynter (1793-1871), clergyman and vice-chancellor of Oxford University: corresp (MSS. Eng. c. 6071-3, d. 2916, e. 3047) ...

Westley Richards & Co Ltd was established in 1812 by the celebrated Birmingham gunmaker, William Westley Richards (1790-1865), He challenged the pre-eminence of the London gunmakers and his ...

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One of the immediate and most important effects of the Act of Union in 1707 was the creation of a united free trade area managed from London. When pre-industrialization began a few decades later it ...

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“It’s fine up to now,” declared O.Jones, the sole Negro black-smith in the works, when I asked him how he was getting on. A big, heavily built man of fifty he was another of the migrants from the ...