Life and Death on the 'Royal Charter'.


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The auxiliary steamship 'Royal Charter' was wrecked at Moelfre, Anglesey, North Wales, on the 26th of October, 1859, with great loss of life and a fortune in gold. This book tells the background to the voyage and the story of the disaster using may of the newspaper reports of that era.




The Golden Wreck


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The Charter


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Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life


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"Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's life" from William Stukeley. Antiquary, ed at Cambridge (1687-1765).




The Wreck of the 'Royal Charter'


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The steamship "Royal Charter" left Melbourne on Aug. 26, 1859 with 450 passengers and crew bound for Liverpool, Eng. but was completely wrecked on the rocky Welsh coast on Oct. 25, 1859 with only 30 survivors.










Charters and Charter Scholarship in Britain and Ireland


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This book draws together a collection of essays looking at the ways in which charters and charter scholarship in different areas of Britain and Ireland, highlighting comparisons and contrasts in charter production and use. The book shows the crucial importance of charters as sources for understanding the history of royal administration and, more broadly, the perceptions and portrayals of kingly power, as well as developments in written culture.




The Statist


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