Article: The press gang; naval impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian ...
The Historian;  June 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... and Politics in Georgian Britain. By Nicholas Rogers ... actions against naval impressment, the celebrations ... and Politics in Georgian Britain conveys vividly ... Militia Act and naval impressment. Press gangs cut ...

Article: Wedlock: Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His ...
History Today;  August 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Wedlock Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match Wendy Moore Weidenfeld and Nicolson ... sharper who inspired Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and is designated 'Georgian Britain's worst husband' by Moore. Intellectually gifted, Mary had ...

Article: MARRIAGE Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 25, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... starving, forcing, compelling and wringing of the heart'. But, as Moore's book demonstrates painfully, even 'Georgian Britain's worst husband' was almost impossible to get rid of. The law was firmly on his side, even though he at one point ...

Article: Home from the wars: Stephen Brumwell discusses attitudes towards ...
History Today;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Public Record Office at Kew, record the names of Highlanders wounded at Ticonderoga and those of many other casualties of Georgian Britain's sprawling wars of empire. They highlight the human cost of the endemic warfare that underpinned Britain's emergence ...

Article: Notes on a scandal; It was an 18th Century scandal and now a new ...
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  February 10, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... that rocked Georgian times. A new book, Wedlock, by author and journalist Wendy Moore delves into the story of 'how Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match.' It's an incredible story, says Wendy, who is married to Newcastle freelance journalist ...

Article: The development of Arabic-script typography in Georgian ...
Printing History;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...BEFORE BRTAIN'S EMPIRE ESPITE a common misconception, printing was known in the Middle East before Napoleon carried a printing press to Egypt during his invasion of 1788. Xylographic block-printing of individual pages of the Quran was widespread in Cairo as early as the tenth century, and similar

Article: Evangelicalism, masculinity, and the making of imperial ...
The Historian;  December 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...And whither can the fainting eye of human misery turn, but to this great Protestant Empire, which God appears to have aggrandized, at the present momentous period, with the design of employing her as the herald of mercy to mankind? (1) THIS QUOTE FROM Daniel Wilson, evangelical cleric and future