The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

The arrests are made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, in an overnight operation.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

Bishop Asser claimed that the ' pagans ' agreed to vacate the realm and made good their promise ; and, indeed, the Viking army did withdraw from Reading in the autumn of 871 to take up winter quarters in Mercian London.

They started playing together as a duo, formed the influential London Blues and Barrelhouse Club in 1955, and made their first record together in 1957.

The two had joined forces as Bamford & Martin the previous year to sell cars made by Singer from premises in Callow Street, London where they also serviced GWK and Calthorpe vehicles.

In Great Britain, the only way in which the play was initially allowed to be given in London was in an adapted form made by Henry Arthur Jones and Henry Herman and called Breaking a Butterfly.

Family friend Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley had great faith in Potter's tale, recast it in didactic verse, and made the rounds of the London publishing houses.

The Honourable East India Company presented Nelson with £ 10, 000 (£ as of ) in recognition of the benefit his action had on their holdings and similar awards were made by the cities of London, Liverpool and other municipal and corporate bodies.

" But the teenager made an impact on his first night at the London Coliseum, winning more laughs in his small role than the star, and he was quickly signed to a contract.

The king's judges would then return to London and often discuss their cases and the decisions they made with the other judges.

In May 1871, he left London to live in Zaandam, in the Netherlands, where he made twenty-five paintings ( and the police suspected him of revolutionary activities ).

In September 1985, Charlton made the controversial move to ground-share with South London neighbours Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.

The idiom made a brief appearance in the UK-based DJ reggae music of the 1980s in the hit " Cockney Translation " by Smiley Culture of South London ; this was followed a couple of years later by Domenick and Peter Metro's " Cockney and Yardie ".

was conferred upon Brewster by Marischal College, Aberdeen ; in 1815 he was made a member of the Royal Society of London, and received the Copley medal ; in 1818 he received the Rumford Medal of the society ; and in 1816 the French Institute awarded him one-half of the prize of three thousand francs for the two most important discoveries in physical science made in Europe during the two preceding years.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

The extent to which drug addiction was now affecting Bowie was made public when Russell Harty interviewed the singer for his London Weekend Television talk show in anticipation of the album's supporting tour.

" He made a surprise guest appearance at David Gilmour's 29 May concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Also in that year, she was made one of the visiting physicians of the East London Hospital for Children, becoming the first woman in Britain to be appointed to a medical post, but she found the duties of these two positions to be incompatible with her principal work in her private practice and the dispensary, as well as her role as a new mother, so she resigned from these posts by 1873.

She was awarded a contract with the Royal Opera in London and made her début at Covent Garden as Marie in La Fille du régiment in 1876.

Policy on buying and stocking Blyton's books by British public libraries drew attention in newspaper reports from the early 1960s to the end of the 1970s, as local decisions were made by a London borough, Birmingham, Nottingham and other central libraries.

These included An Elopement à la Mode and The Pickpocket: A Chase Through London, made by Alf Collins for the British branch of the French Gaumont company, Daring Daylight Burglary, made by Frank Mottershaw at the Sheffield Photographic Company, and Desperate Poaching Affray, made by the Haggar family, whose main business was exhibiting films made by others in their traveling tent theatre.

After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.

By December 1790 Phillip was ready to return to England, but the colony had largely been forgotten in London and no instructions reached him, so he carried on.

Kaye had an invitation to return to London for a Royal Variety Performance in November of the same year.

On her return to England the following year ( 1850 ), she moved to London with the intent of becoming a writer and calling herself Marian Evans.

Upon his return to the London temple, Crowley requested the grade papers to which he was now entitled from Miss Cracknell, the acting secretary.

In June Holt travelled to London via Canada, where on 6 June he opened the Australian Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal ; on the return journey the Holts stayed with the Johnsons at the presidential summer resort, Camp David, in Maryland.

Mellitus also returned to England, but the prevailing pagan mood did not allow him to return to London ; after Laurence's death, Mellitus became Archbishop of Canterbury.

On his return to London he took lodgings at 8 Dean Street, Southwark, and braced himself for further study in order to become a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Most of Ribbentrop's time was spent either demanding that Britain sign the Anti-Comintern Pact or that London return the former German colonies in Africa.

Armed conflict broke out between John and Longchamp, and by October 1191 Longchamp was isolated in the Tower of London with John in control of the city of London, thanks to promises John had made to the citizens in return for recognition as Richard's heir presumptive.

He traveled to Germany and France between 1782 and 1785, and upon his return to London, became a leading member of the Grand Professional Concerts at the Hanover Square Rooms in Soho.

Mikhail Lyubimov, his closest KGB contact, explained that this was to guard his safety, but later admitted that the real reason was the KGB's fear that Philby would return to London.

Woodfull told the Nottinghamshire administrators that, if Voce's leg-side bowling was repeated, his men would leave the field and return to London.

When the cash strapped NAC Executive Council voted to send a team to London to persuade Dr. Banda to return to Malawi and lead the movement, the powerful Salisbury Branch raised the funds required for the two men, Masauko Chipembere and Harry Bwanausi, to make the boat trip to England.

On his return to Europe, he stopped in London, where the Hanover Gallery had organized a solo show of his work, and there met Henry Moore.

Mellitus returned to England the following year, after Æthelberht's successor had been converted to Christianity, but he was unable to return to London, whose inhabitants remained pagan.

However, Mellitus did not return to London, because the East Saxons remained pagan.

The volume of essays was intended to be presented to Williams upon the return of the OUP staff to London with the ending of the war.

The Twilights, formed in Adelaide, also made the trip to London, recording a series of minor hits, absorbing the psychedelic scene, to return home to produce covers of Beatles ' songs, complete with sitar, and the concept album Once upon a Twilight ( 1968 ).

After departing, Musharraf currently in self-exile in London but has vowed to return for the next election.

On his return to London in 1846, he wrote a trilogy on the natural history of Jamaica including A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica ( 1851 ), which was " written in a congenial style and firmly established his reputation both as a naturalist and a writer.

He was reinstated on his return at the behest of officials in London, who also recommended the Governor drop the new fee.

The crowds in London traditionally claimed a right to elect the king of England, and they proclaimed Stephen the new monarch, believing that he would grant the city new rights and privileges in return.