Crying All the Way to the Bank

Barker, Revel

Legal History

Revel Barker

Field of Vision : First Fifty Years of Cranfield University

Cranfield University

There was no crime on the Mediterranean island of Montebello. Occasionally, it was necessary for somebody to be murdered, but that was only because the island was part of Sicily, and murder was a Sicilian tradition. But Horatio Greene, who had spent all his childhood holidays on the sunshine isle and retired - early - to live there, knew that locals left their keys in the lock on the outside of the door, and that there'd never been a stolen car...

The Mayor of Montebello

Literature & Fiction

Palatino publishing

The years between 5500 and 3500BC have been described as the Mediterranean's "forgotten age". But in fact that was the Age of Enlightenment that saw the start of seettlement and village life, of civilisation in Europe and, coincidentally, experienced the first known steps of Man on the Maltese archipelago - which culminated in the building of one of the archaeological wonders of the world on Gozo: the site we call &#288;gantija (the first free-standing stone building on earth).

The First Gozitans: (... and Ġgantija)

Travel

Palatino

There is evidence of weaving in Yorkshire dating back to the Bronze Age but there was weaving everywhere where there were sheep, and there were sheep everywhere in England. There was nothing special about Yorkshire wool, but when a missionary preacher came back from Australia to report on the colony to King George III, he brought a barrel full of wool from his own flock and had it woven and tailored near his home, half-way between Bradford and Leeds. The King (not so mad as reported) admired both the wool and the weave and was promised a coat in the same texture. It was the start of the Australian wool industry and the supremacy of Yorkshire as the place to weave it and then to tailor it and to market it. Bradford would become the world's centre for wool-buying and the weaving industry and Leeds, ten miles away for the marketing and tailoring. Everything in the West Riding, from the size of the mills to their works canteens would become the biggest and best in the world.

Fit For A King: A Short History of Yorkshire's Wool Industry and Trade

Business & Money

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