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William Hone (3 June 1780 – 8 November 1842) was an English writer, satirist and bookseller. His victorious court battle against government censorship in 1817 marked a turning point in the fight for British press freedom.[2]

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  2. ^ William Hone One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hone, William". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 652.

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William Hone

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William Hone (3 June 1780 – 8 November 1842) was an English writer, satirist and bookseller. His victorious court battle against government censorship...

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The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden

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by William Hone in 1820, titled The Apocryphal New Testament, itself a reprint of a translation of the Apostolic Fathers done in 1693 by William Wake...

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Brian Hone

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Sir Brian William Hone OBE FACE (1907–1978) was an Australian headmaster and, in his youth, a first-class cricketer. Brian was born on 1 July 1907 in the...

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Football

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2018. example of ball handling in early football from English writer William Hone, writing in 1825 or 1826, quotes the social commentator Sir Frederick...

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Hone family

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The Hone family is an Anglo-Irish family dating back to the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland when Samuel Hone arrived with the Parliamentary army in 1649...

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Penal treadmill

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with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion. Vol III., ed. William Hone, (London: 1838) p 755. Evans 2014. No Tech 2009. sfn error: no target:...

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Ian Hislop

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and Tom Hockenhull. Trial by Laughter (2018) a play on the trials of William Hone by Hislop and Nick Newman, originally broadcast in 2017 on BBC Radio...

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Joseph Maunsel Hone

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in Ireland in the early 20th century. Hone was the son of William Hone, of Killiney, County Dublin, of the Hone family, and Sarah Cooper of Limerick....

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Stockwell ghost

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by the public to be the result of poltergeist activity or witchcraft. William Hone in his The Every Day Book (1825) revealed that Ann Robinson later admitted...

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Honing

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Honing, Norfolk, English village Henkjan Honing (born 1959), Dutch musician Yuri Honing (born 1965), Dutch saxophonist Edward Honing William Honing Hone...

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Malthusianism

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Essay on Population. London: E. Wilson. Hazlitt, William (1819). Political Essays. London: William Hone. p. 426. Rothschild (1995), p. 351 Jordan, Alexander...

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The London Gazette

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June 1843. col. 365. Archived 5 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine By William Hone (1827); published by Hunt and Clarke. Wikimedia Commons has media related...

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Treadwheel

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with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion. Vol III., ed. William Hone, (London: 1838), p. 755. "A Victorian prison; Why were Victorian Prisons...

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Syriac Infancy Gospel

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Henry Sike in 1697 together with a Latin translation. The preface to the William Hone translation states, "It was received by the Gnostics, a sect of Christians...

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Fire eating

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with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion. Vol III., ed. William Hone, (London: 1838) p 314-16. Retrieved on 2008-06-12 Miracle Mongers and...

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Butterfly

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Book; or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Etc. Vol III, ed. William Hone, (London: 1838) p 678. "Superstitions and Beliefs Related to Death"....

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George Cruikshank

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for popular publications. He achieved early success collaborating with William Hone in his political satire The Political House That Jack Built (1819). In...

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Plough Monday

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usually dressed in costume, often with one or more in female clothing. William Hone made use of Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain:...

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This Is the House That Jack Built

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Peterloo Massacre, was "The Political House That Jack Built", written by William Hone and illustrated by George Cruikshank. In 1863, David Claypoole Johnston...

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Mam Tor

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with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion. Vol III., ed. William Hone, (London: 1838) p 11–16. Retrieved on 24 June 2008. Historic England...

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Penge

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now use the terminus, as do short-running buses on routes 194 and 358. William Hone wrote about a visit to the Crooked Billet in 1827 and included a detailed...

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