The Annual Register, Volume 139Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1898 Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year. |
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... African Committee - The Irish Nationalists at Westminster - Military Works Bill - The Voluntary Schools Bill Brought in - Women's Franchise Bill Read a Second Time - Egypt and the Expenses of the Soudan Expedition- Disestablishment ...
... African Committee - The Irish Nationalists at Westminster - Military Works Bill - The Voluntary Schools Bill Brought in - Women's Franchise Bill Read a Second Time - Egypt and the Expenses of the Soudan Expedition- Disestablishment ...
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... AFRICA - EAST AFRICA - WEST AFRICA - CENTRAL AFRICA [ 344 [ 367 CHAPTER VII . AMERICA : UNITED STATES - CANADA - NEWFOUNDLAND - MEXICO - CENTRAL AMERICA - WEST INDIES - SOUTH AMERICA AUSTRALASIA [ 386 CHAPTER VIII . [ 408 PART II ...
... AFRICA - EAST AFRICA - WEST AFRICA - CENTRAL AFRICA [ 344 [ 367 CHAPTER VII . AMERICA : UNITED STATES - CANADA - NEWFOUNDLAND - MEXICO - CENTRAL AMERICA - WEST INDIES - SOUTH AMERICA AUSTRALASIA [ 386 CHAPTER VIII . [ 408 PART II ...
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... Africa . I deplore the loss of valuable lives which these operations have entailed . " The depressed condition of the sugar industry in my West Indian Colonies has seriously affected their prosperity , and I have appointed a commission ...
... Africa . I deplore the loss of valuable lives which these operations have entailed . " The depressed condition of the sugar industry in my West Indian Colonies has seriously affected their prosperity , and I have appointed a commission ...
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... Africa , he brought his speech to a close by a brief reference to the legislative programme of the Government , as to which he commented on the novel and excessive caution with which her Majesty's ministers had made the passing of ...
... Africa , he brought his speech to a close by a brief reference to the legislative programme of the Government , as to which he commented on the novel and excessive caution with which her Majesty's ministers had made the passing of ...
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... Africa , Sir W. Harcourt said the House was about to institute a most important inquiry into the condition of affairs there . The committee would have to consider the future organisation of that dilapidated territory , but it would ...
... Africa , Sir W. Harcourt said the House was about to institute a most important inquiry into the condition of affairs there . The committee would have to consider the future organisation of that dilapidated territory , but it would ...
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