Geoffrey Finlayson

Patronage and Society in Nineteenth-Century England

by J.M. Bourne

Published February 1 1987

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Published October 1 1983

The Victorian Shaftesbury

Published March 1 1983

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.