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Kim Philby, as depicted on a Soviet Union stamp. The Cambridge Five was a ring of spies in the United Kingdom that passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and the Cold War and was active from the 1930s until at least the early 1950s. None of the known members were ever prosecuted for spying.
Leah's Yard is a retail and trading hub, and former collection of small industrial workshops situated on Cambridge Street in the city centre of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. [1] The building has been designated as a Grade II* listed building and has been noted for its importance as an example of Sheffield's industrial heritage. It has ...
Stamps of All Souls College, Oxford. A stamp of Keble College, 1882. An imperforate stamp of Hertford College. Queens' College, Cambridge stamps. From 1871 to 1886 certain Oxford and Cambridge colleges issued their own stamps to be sold to members of the college so that they could pre-pay the cost of a college messenger delivering their mail.
The Lion Yard shopping centre is a covered shopping centre in the city centre of Cambridge, England. [1] Construction work on the centre, which is bounded by St Andrew's Street, Corn Exchange Street, and Petty Cury, [2] commenced in 1970 and the development contained a library, multi-storey car park and magistrates' court.
Stamp was educated at Dulwich College in South London from 1959 to 1967 as part of the "Dulwich Experiment", [1] then at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he obtained a PhD in 1978 with a thesis entitled George Gilbert Scott, junior, architect, 1839–1897.
The postmarks bore the initial of the particular post office or handling house it was sent from along with a separate time stamp. Postage was prepaid and the postmark was applied to the mailed item by means of an inked hand-stamp. Some historians also consider these postmarks to be the world's first postage "stamps". [3]
Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) unveiled new legislation Monday to empower President Trump to enter negotiations to "purchase or otherwise acquire" Greenland and to rename the icy island "Red, White and ...
Moving to Cambridge in 1956, they converted four small cottages with the help of Winton Aldridge into one idiosyncratic house and a place to display Ede's collection of early 20th-century art. Ede maintained an 'open house' each afternoon, giving any visitors, particularly students, a personal tour of his collection.