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This edition has been revised and up-dated, and now contains information and illustrations about Derby porcelain. It focuses on the Nottingham Road, Derby factory, its staff and its wares with detailed biographies on anyone and everyone connected with production and sales during the period.
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On Wednesday 4 June 1913, fledgling newsreel cameras captured just over two-and-a-half minutes of neverto-be-forgotten British social and sporting history. The 250,000 people thronging Epsom Downs carried with them a quartet of combustible elements: a fanatical, publicity-hungry suffragette; a scapegoat for the Titanic disaster and the pillar of the Establishment who bore him a personal grudge; a pair of feuding jockeys at odds over money and glory; and, finally, at the heart of the action, two thoroughbred horses - one a vicious savage and one the consummate equine athlete. Taken together, this was a recipe for the most notorious horse race in British history. One hundred years on, this par...
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From two mss., the first by an unknown writer, contains the household expenses of Edward, earl of Derby, for 1561, and his household regulations for 1568; the other ms., written mainly by Ffarington, who held various offices in the household, gives part of the expenditure of Henry, earl of Derby, for 1586-90.