- Hazelstone. It
appears that Miss
Hazelstone has
obliterated her
black cook '
Fivepence' with a quadruple-barreled
elephant gun. A
paradoxical anglophile, van...
-
inherited a
deficit of
nearly £5,000,000, with
income tax now set at 5d (
fivepence). Like Peel,
Gladstone dismissed the idea of
borrowing to
cover the deficit...
-
pioneered by the
Illustrated London News (published from 1842,
costing fivepence): its
imitators included the
Pictorial Times (1843–48), and –
after the...
-
original cover price was sixpence,
while the
Illustrated London News was
fivepence. A
successful artist himself,
founder Thomas recruited gifted artists...
- six
hundred and thirty-six
thousand and five
Pounds One
Shilling and
Fivepence out of the
Consolidated Fund to the
Service of the Year
ending the Thirty-first...
- or snuggery,
where debtors could drink as much beer as they wanted, at
fivepence a pot in 1815.
Philpotts reports that, by the
early 19th century, most...
- six
hundred and thirty-one
thousand and five
Pounds One
Shilling and
Fivepence out of the
Consolidated Fund to the
Service of the Year
ending the Thirty-first...
- a
positive review of London's
vegetarian restaurants, claiming, "For
fivepence one
could get a
lentil cutlet,
which was very appetizing, and
looked like...
-
illustration published in
September 1889, '"The
Secret of England's Greatness" –
Fivepence per Hour!', "p****ionately
urges the
preservation of
Australian working-class...
- Its two main rivals, the
Daily News and the
Morning Post, both cost
fivepence. Levy
believed that if he
could produce a
cheaper newspaper than his main...
