The World's First Railway System

The World's First Railway System PDF

Author: Mark Casson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 0199213976

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This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternative network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done.

Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century

Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century PDF

Author: Timothy J. McCann

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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Prints in chronological order all known references to 18th century cricket in Sussex or played by Sussex teams, recorded in local and national newspapers, diaries, correspondence and accounts of the period. The introduction reproduces all known references to cricket in Sussex in the 17th century.

The Durford Cartulary

The Durford Cartulary PDF

Author: Janet H. Stevenson

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13:

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Text consists of an English calendar of the cartulary of Durford abbey, a house of Premonstratensian, or White, canons. The cartulary, compiled in the late 13th century, but with later additions, records its endowment by the founder, his son and others, notably Henry of Guildford in the early 14th century, and gifts and purchases of lands.