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1 day ago · St Mary's University, Twickenham: 23 January 2014 Monstra te esse matrem (Show thyself to be a mother) St Mary's was founded in 1850 as a Roman Catholic teacher training college for male students. Arden University: 5 August 2015 Private for-profit blended learning university, title awarded via Companies House rather than the Privy Council ...
1 day ago · BBC radio broadcast 29 April 1937 [ 1 ] Adeline Virginia Woolf (/ wʊlf /; [ 2 ] née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
1 day ago · Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, PC (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig politician who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain [a] from 1721 to 1742. He also served as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Leader of the House of Commons, and is ...
1 day ago · In the 17th and 18th century several important Gothic buildings were constructed at Oxford University and Cambridge University, including Tom Tower (1681–82) at Christ Church, Oxford, by Christopher Wren. It also appeared, in a whimsical fashion, in Horace Walpole's Twickenham villa, Strawberry Hill (1749–1776).
