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Hace 4 días · In 1711 it was intended that Mile End New Town should form part of a new parish of Bethnal Green, (fn. 2) but the hamlet remained in the parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney, until it was created a district chapelry of St. Dunstan's in 1841, (fn. 3) with its own church, All Saints’, Mile End New Town.
Hace 2 días · Clement Attlee. Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. Attlee served as Deputy Prime Minister during the wartime ...
Hace 3 días · Sir Thomas More PC (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, amateur theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, which describes the political system ...
Hace 6 días · London is the capital of and largest city in England and the United Kingdom.It is divided into the City of London and 32 London boroughs, the result of amalgamation of earlier units of administration that can be traced back to ancient parishes.Each borough is made up of many smaller areas that are variously called districts, neighbourhoods, suburbs, towns or villages.
Hace 1 día · Bethnal green was known as the scene of the legend of the Blind Beggar and later as the archetypal East End slum, the green lying c. 2½ miles (4 km.) north-east of St. Paul's cathedral. (fn. 1) A hamlet of Stepney until 1743, when it became a separate parish, it contained 755 a. (fn. 2) and was bounded by Shoreditch on the west and north ...
Hace 2 días · CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL NOTES ON THE CHURCH AND PARISH. The name of the Parish. The ancient name of Stepney appears under several forms, the principal being: Stibenhede (in Domesday, 1080); Stebenheth (in Taxatio Ecclesiastica, 1291, and Valor Ecclesiastic, 1534); the rendering of which has been given as Stephen's hede or hyth—Stephen's landing ...
Hace 5 días · Footnotes. 1.Defoe's account of the Plague was published 57 years after the event, and, though founded on facts, is considered to partake somewhat of the romantic bias of its author.See however the figures of burials in the Stepney Register p.49. 2.See the Monograph on the Trinity Hospital in Mile End; by C. R. Ashbee, M.A., issued by the Survey Committee in 1896.
