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  2. Paternoster Row - Wikipedia

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    Paternoster Row is a street in the City of London that was a centre of the London publishing trade, [1] [2] with booksellers operating from the street. [3] Paternoster Row was described as "almost synonymous" with the book trade. [4] It was part of an area called St Paul's Churchyard. In time Paternoster Row itself was used inclusively of ...

  3. Paternoster Square - Wikipedia

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    The historic square was formerly the site of Newgate Market, a meat market serving much of London. By the late nineteenth [1] century it was called Paternoster Square, taking the name from Paternoster Row. It was accessed on the north by Rose Street (originally Roe Street), the west by White Hart Street and the south and east by alleys, which ...

  4. St Paul's Churchyard - Wikipedia

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    With the advent of printing, St Paul's Churchyard became the centre of the book trade in England (later moving to nearby Paternoster Row). [2] It was originally dominated by foreign booksellers. Richard III's only parliament of 1484 passed the act which encouraged them to do business in London. Despite other protectionist measures, the king ...

  5. Religious Tract Society - Wikipedia

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    The idea for the society came from the Congregationalist minister George Burder, who raised the idea while meeting with the London Missionary Society (founded in 1795) in May 1799. It was formally established on 10 May 1799, having a treasurer, a secretary, and ten committee members, [ 2 ] with members required to "[subscribe] half a guinea or ...

  6. Awnsham Churchill - Wikipedia

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    Awnsham Churchill (1658–1728), of the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London and Henbury, Dorset, was an English bookseller and radical Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1705 to 1710.

  7. St Michael Paternoster Royal - Wikipedia

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    St Michael Paternoster Royal is a church in the City of London. The original building, which was first recorded in the 13th century, was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The church was rebuilt under the aegis of Sir Christopher Wren. However St Michael's was severely damaged during the London Blitz in the Second World War. It was ...

  8. Pro-Palestine protest march row explained as thousands ... - AOL

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    Thousands are expected to march in London tomorrow, as a row has broken out over future demonstrations potentially disrupting Remembrance Day events and further action expected in the coming weeks.

  9. History of bookselling - Wikipedia

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    Paternoster Row, London, was for over a hundred years the centre of this industry, where retail booksellers, busily engaged in obtaining the books ordered by the book-buying public. It is where the publisher calls first on showing or "subscribing" a new book, a critical process, for by the number thus ordered the fate of a book is sometimes ...

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