Eager to demonstrate the value of an historical perspective as to why, in a functioning market economy, people are unlikely to ever run out...
82 months ago

“Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia,” said the Irish writer Dionysius Lardner in 1830.
22 months ago

Dion Boucicault was an Irish-American playwright and actor, a major influence on the form and content of American drama. Educated in England, Boucicault...
112 months ago

Playwright, actor and theatre manager Dionysius Lardner Boucicault is remembered as the originator of the so-called “sensation” scene.
69 months ago

The Confession Box pub resides snuggly at 88 Marlborough Street on the ground floor of a fine old Georgian building at the side of the old Boyers.
16 months ago

10 August 1917, Edmund Colpoys Lardner-Burke killed in action in East Africa. 10 August 1960, De Beers Yacht Club officially opened by Harry Oppenheimer. E.
84 months ago

En el bum por el tren de 1840 en Reino Unido, las previsiones de ingresos fueron optimistas, y se subestimaron los costes.
6 months ago

We're taking a break from our usual weekly-ish posting schedule for the holidays, but we are bringing you a quick entry on some of the best...
1 month ago

Hardcover - Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman; John Taylor - 1838 - Condition: Very Good - 12mo. 378 p. : b&w engr. plate.
93 months ago

Railway Economy: A treatise on the new art of transport, its management, prospects, and relations, commercial, financial, and social [Lardner, Dionysius] on...
103 months ago