Scientific Journal published by Macmillan's. Created by Norman Lockyer to 'provide cultivated readers with an accessible forum for reading about advances in scientific knowledge' The journal's name was taken from a line by Wordsworth 'To the solid ground of nature trusts the mind that builds for aye'.
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English Heritage Sir Norman Lockyer, 1836-1920, Astronomer, Physicist, and Fo...
President of NUWSS prior to Millicent Fawcett and campaigned for voting rights of unmarried women and widows. Also an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. Best remembered for ...
Publishing house founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It grew from a hobby to become a business, publishing the works of the members of the Bloomsbury Group and books on psychoanalysis and foreig...
There are records of the Thames freezing over as far back as CE 250. The piers of old London Bridge were broad and close together, meaning that they could get easily blocked creating a dam which wo...
Publishers at 65 Cornhill (the picture) until 1868. Also at 15 Waterloo Place. Their first big success was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. They also published: Thackeray, Darwin, Ruskin, Browning...
Newspaper proprietor, The News of the World in particular. Chairman of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, in 1926 when he, together with George Eastman, and Sir Albert Levy, funded the cons...
