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Oxfam is the largest retailer of second-hand books in Europe, selling around 12 million per year. Most of Oxfam's 600 charity shops around the UK sell books, and around 100 are specialist bookshops or book and music shops. A typical Oxfam bookshop will have around 50 volunteers, as well as a small number of full-time staff. [1]
The burgh of Hillhead was created on 14 May 1869 [3] and the Burgh Chambers were established in Victoria Street in 1873, [4] on the site of the present day Hillhead Library. Nearby lanes and byways have benefited from the business of Byres Road and now contain a variety of small businesses from tapas bars to second-hand record stores.
Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent non-governmental organizations (NGOs), focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. [3] It began as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in Oxford, UK, in 1942, to alleviate World War Two related hunger and continued in the aftermath ...
The chain was founded in 1982 by Tim Waterstone after he took a [18] [19] £6,000 redundancy payout from WHSmith. He set up his first shop in Old Brompton Road, Kensington with the ambition of creating a "different breed of bookshop", using techniques he had seen in the United States. [18]
KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made the case on Monday for a diplomatic settlement to Russia's war in Ukraine and raised the idea of foreign troops being deployed in his country ...
Jamiya Neal had a career-high 24 points to help Creighton snap UConn's 28-game home winning streak with a 68-63 victory on Saturday. The 14th-ranked Huskies hadn't lost at home since an 82-79 loss ...
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At its north-western edge, Albert Bridge is the closest crossing point towards Glasgow city centre. In McNeill Street, Hutchesontown has one of Glasgow's original Carnegie libraries, deftly designed by the Inverness-born architect James Robert Rhind. James Stokes, recipient of the Victoria Cross, was from the area.