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THIS MONTH IN S.C. HISTORY: King Charles II issues Carolina Charter

Index-Journal 19 Mar 2023

The charter that made these men, and their heirs and assigns, the “true and absolute Lords Proprietors” of Carolina was signed on March 24, 1663. The eight lords that were listed were ... The government of Carolina consisted of a governor; a council, of which half were appointed by the Lords Proprietors; and an elected assembly.

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Museum of the Albemarle: 'Valley of humility' grew to become 'to be, not seem' state

Daily Advance 16 Mar 2023

A popular joke by historians refers to North Carolina as “the valley of humility between two mountains of conceit.” ... The dividing lines separating Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina were drawn after the British government took control in 1728 of land originally given to the eight English Lord Proprietors in 1663 ... to 4 p.m. to welcome you ... .

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This month in SC history

The Post and Courier 15 Mar 2023

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This Month in SC History: Charles II issues the Carolina Charter

Index-Journal 13 Mar 2023

The charter that made these men, and their heirs and assigns, the “true and absolute Lords Proprietors” of Carolina was signed on March 24, 1663. The eight lords who were listed were ... The government of Carolina consisted of a governor; a council, of which half were appointed by the Lords Proprietors; and an elected assembly.

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Randell Jones: The history we don’t know tells our tales

Winston-Salem Journal 11 Mar 2023

Anger at the past and fear of the future motivate us, whether we know it or not. Both sources of angst are generally rooted in what we don’t know ... Another ... That’s a good idea ... People are also reading… ... It was 360 years ago in 1663, that King Charles II issued the Carolina Charter to eight Lords Proprietors, giving birth to what became our state ... .

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Wally Fawkes obituary

The Guardian 07 Mar 2023

In 1948 Lord (Vere) Rothermere, proprietor of the Daily Mail, was much taken on a visit to the US by a children’s strip about a small boy and his magic uncle, and thought something ...

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Behind the rise of Amol Rajan

New Statesman 23 Feb 2023

When Amol Rajan was plucked from Fleet Street to join the BBC, not everybody there was convinced by him ... Rajan sought to address at least one of these concerns ... [See also ... Arguably, Rajan’s big break came in 2011 when Evgeny (now Lord) Lebedev, the Independent’s Russian proprietor, took a shine to him and made him his press adviser ... [See also.

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King’s royal seal of approval for the Felix Project

London Evening Standard 22 Feb 2023

Charles met with staff, volunteers and Evening Standard proprietor Lord Lebedev at the Felix Project during a tour of its warehouse and kitchens in Poplar ... .

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Obituary: Valerie Pakenham, author and champion of all things Westmeath who, with her husband Thomas, restored Tullynally Castle

Irish Independent 05 Feb 2023

She was the fourth of five children of Major Ronald Guthrie McNair Scott; her mother was the daughter of the half-Swedish first Lord Camrose, proprietor of the High Tory ... Thomas became Lord Silchester on his uncle’s death and Earl of Longford when his father died in ...

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Greatest man who ever strode down Fleet Street: That's how his biggest rival described Lord ...

The Daily Mail 01 Feb 2023

Newspaper proprietor Lord Northcliffe, was the founder of the Daily Mail and hailed even by rivals as the 'greatest man who ever strode down Fleet Street'. The Mail's current proprietor, Lord and Lady Rothermere with three of their children at the book launch of 'The Chief. The Life of Lord Northcliffe' ... For, as Lord Roberts acknowledged.

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Director Carl Borick's top 10 tour

The Post and Courier 08 Jan 2023

Here are the objects that Director Carl Borick includes in his periodic top 10 tour.. Axe head. Felling axe recovered near the plantation of Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, one of the Lords Proprietors, occupied by his manager, Andrew Percivall, 1674-1685, dating the piece to the first 15 years of the Carolina colony. Basket fragments ... Dave jars ... Peter C.

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Evgeny Lebedev’s 1% attendance makes him among least active in House of Lords

The Guardian 19 Dec 2022

Of 318 possible sittings since he formally entered the Lords in November 2019, the billionaire newspaper proprietor ...

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The bad boys of the Hypocrites Club

The Spectator 12 Dec 2022

Members of the Hypocrites Club were Oxford undergraduates, and those with whom David Fleming’s book is chiefly concerned were born between 1903-5 ... Hartley, the novelist, and David Cecil, the biographer and historian ... Most popular. Jamie Gillies ... A homosexual incident that might have landed him in jail was suppressed by the proprietor Lord Beaverbrook ... .

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From the NS archive: The meaning of Mentmore

New Statesman 29 Nov 2022

“All that is valuable in human terms has been transferred by degrees from the sphere of private patronage to that of national responsibility,” the author wrote ... Lord Rosebery, who became the proprietor at the close of the 19th century, was a grandee in what had already become an anachronistic style, and incidentally a bad Prime Minister ... .

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Middleton Place holds large family reunion, bring together Black and White

The Post and Courier 14 Nov 2022

For the fourth time since 2006, Middleton Place invited descendants of both the White and Black sides of the family for a reunion meant to strengthen ties, delve into history and advance dialogue and understanding ... Buy Now ... the overthrow of the Lord Proprietors, the overthrow of British rule, and the attempted secession of the slave-holding South ... .