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Poole succeeded Edmands' position at the library and in 1848, while still a student, published his own 154-page index to periodical literature. A 524-page edition was published in 1853, and a third 1469-page edition in 1882. [1] He was assistant librarian of the Boston Athenaeum in 1851, and in 1852 became librarian of the Boston Mercantile ...
The history of Poole, a town in Dorset, England, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement around Poole Harbour during the Iron Age. The town now known as Poole was founded on a small peninsula to the north of the harbour. Poole experienced rapid growth as it became an important port following the Norman Conquest of England.
Sir Henry Poole (1541 – 31 August 1616) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1593. Poole was the son of Sir Giles Poole and his first wife Elizabeth Whittington. He was admitted at Inner Temple in 1562.
The Hawkhurst Gang was a notorious criminal organisation involved in smuggling throughout south-east England from 1735 until 1749. One of the more infamous gangs of the early 18th century, they extended their influence from Hawkhurst, their base in Kent, along the South coast, where they successfully raided the Custom House, Poole.
The following were mayors of Poole, Dorset, England: 1515–16, 1521–2, 1530–1, 1536–7, 1543–4: William Biddlecombe [1] 1597–1598: Roger Mawdley; 1697–8, 1703–4, 1704–5: William Phippard [2] 1798: John Jeffery [3] 2015: Janet Walton [4] 2018: Sean Gabriel [5] [6] 2019, 2020: Marion Le Poidevin [7] 2021: Julie Bagwell [8] 2022 ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said it has dismissed a biosecurity expert after an internal inquiry upheld allegations of sexual misconduct but the man's lawyer dismissed the ...
The British Museum Catalogues of Coins was a series envisioned and initiated by Reginald Stuart Poole, Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals, at the British Museum, between 1870 and 1893. The aim was to produce a scholarly series of catalogues of the collection, based on the British Museum's collection and other collections.
Robert Poole. Robert Poole (born 1957) is a UK-based historian, currently professor of history at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. [1] He gained his PhD from the University of Lancaster in 1986, where he was associated with Prof Harold Perkin's Centre for Social History, organising the 1996 conference of the Social History Society on 'Time and the Construction of the Past'.