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In the mid-18th century thousands of poor women deposited their newborn babies at the Foundling Hospital.

Threads of feeling Kathryn Hughes 2010

Curry recipes were published in England as far back as the mid-18th century and the first Indian restaurant the Hindoostane Coffee House opened in London in 1810.

The New Spice Trade Bruce Palling 2011

All the buildings on the Circus are Grade-I-listed, so on the outside they haven't been altered much since they were built in the mid-18th century.

Life in a Georgian home 2011

In the mid-18th century thousands of poor women, similarly at the end of their tethers, deposited their newborn babies at the hospital.

Threads of feeling Kathryn Hughes 2010

This true story of a mid-18th century English heiress duped into a marriage with an abusive, masochistic, fortune-hunting monster is jaw-droppingly fascinating.

Reader reviews of Wedlock by Wendy Moore. 2009

This was an undervalued point in helping to understand the Taliban insurgency, which could, at least in part, be understood as a movement of Ghilzai Pashtuns, rural tribes long on the outs in Afghanistan, fighting for power against the Durrani Pashtuns who have traditionally ruled the country since the mid-18th century.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

Afghanistan emerged as a country of sorts only in the mid-18th century, and a case can be made that with the slow-motion dissolution of the former Soviet empire in Central Asia, and the gradual weakening of the Pakistani state, a historic realignment is now taking place that could see Afghanistan disappear on the political map: in the future, for example, the Hindu Kush could form a border between Pashtunistan and a Greater Tajikistan.

Man Versus Afghanistan 2010

A history buff, Mr. Reed says an Old West museum made sense because of Harrisburg's history as a trading post in the mid-18th century, linking the East Coast to territories of present-day Ohio and Illinois.

Harrisburg Is Having a Yard Sale—Wanna Buy a Stuffed Buffalo? Michael Corkery 2011

Not until the mid-18th century are there records of stroke-play competitions, introduced to make tournaments involving larger numbers of golfers feasible.

Can We Have More Match Play? John Paul Newport 2010

In the 1960s and 70s social historians tended to assume that labouring men and women in the mid-18th century were the passive victims of Britain's shift to a consumer-driven economy.

Threads of feeling Kathryn Hughes 2010