* Margaret Gelling

Both ‘ heath ’ & ‘ dune ’ relate to the wide, raised land that the field lies on, as the word dun being, ‘ consistenly used for a low hill with a fairly extensive summit which provided a good settlement-site in open country ( Margaret Gelling ).

When Professor Bruce Dickins succeeded as Honorary Director the Society moved to the University of Cambridge and Miss Margaret Midgley ( later Dr Margaret Gelling ) was appointed Research Assistant.

* Margaret Gelling

However, Margaret Gelling, a specialist in Midland toponyms, has strongly emphasised the importance of situating place-names in the landscape.

* Gelling, Margaret ( 1992 ).

Margaret Gelling took the view that the name of Aust is " probably " one of the very few English place-names to be derived from Latin.

Post-Beaumont, Margaret Gelling associated the name with the landscape in which the town is situated, believing that-hall comes from Anglo-Saxon healh, meaning a nook or hollow, thus rendering the name as " Cogg's nook " ( with Cogg as a proper name ), corresponding to Coggeshall's sunken position in the 150-foot contour line.

However, Margaret Gelling, predisposed to find direct evidence for toponyms in the local landscape, has proposed a precise location for the mound, now destroyed by ploughing, that gave both the town and, ultimately, the river their names.

Topographical names were held in low esteem by early place name scholars but their importance was raised in a book by Margaret Gelling, first published in 1978.

The hill is topped by an Iron Age multivallate Durotrigian hill fort which was excavated in the 1960s by Peter Gelling of the University of Birmingham with his wife Margaret Gelling at the request of Michael Pinney.

Margaret Gelling, a specialist in West Midland toponyms, suggested that it was often misunderstood by the Anglo-Saxons as a name rather than as a common noun.

As Margaret Gelling points out, in the context of place name evidence, what actually happened between the departure of the Romans and the coming of the Normans is the subject of much disagreement by historians.

His son Thomas, aged fifteen when he entered Oxford in 1582, married as his first wife Margaret, sister of Sir Edward Greville.

She then read Latin at Birmingham University and later attended Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics ( PPE ).

* The Oxford Reader's Companion to the Brontës, Christine Alexander & Margaret Smith

* The Oxford Reader's Companion to the Brontës, Christine Alexander & Margaret Smith

As a result, on 2 September 1939, three school girls, Margaret, Mary and Katherine, came to live at The Kilns in Risinghurst, Lewis ' home three miles east of Oxford city centre.

Their only child, Margaret ( 1786 – 1858 ), was the mother of Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne ( 1823 – 1911 ) professor of mineralogy at Oxford ( 1856 – 95 ).

Arthur and Margaret moved back to Oxford, renting a house there in January, 1883.

From his first marriage to Dorothy de Vere, sister of the John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, he had two children, John and Margaret.

The college shares its motto with Christ's College, Cambridge and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Others, such as Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, commemorate respected people.

Lady Margaret Hall, the first women's college at the University of Oxford, was named in her honour.

Under Fisher's guidance, his patroness Lady Margaret founded St John's and Christ's Colleges at Cambridge, and a Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity at each of the two universities at Oxford and Cambridge, Fisher himself becoming the first occupant of the Cambridge chair.

Robert Southey was born in Wine Street, Bristol, England, to Robert Southey and Margaret Hill and educated at Westminster School, London, ( from which he was expelled for writing a magazine article in The Flagellant condemning flogging ) and Balliol College, Oxford.

In the following century Lady Margaret Beaufort obtained the property of Creake Abbey ( whose religious had all died of Black Death in 1506 ) to fund her works at Oxford and Cambridge, an action she took on the advice of such a staunch traditionalist as John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester.

Keynote speakers included Professor Mary Jo Bane ( Harvard ), Professor Chris McCruddeon ( Oxford ), Professor Johan Verstraaten ( Leuven ) and Professor Margaret Archer ( Lausanne ).

Sunken gardens outside Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Giles Gilbert Scott's Deneke Building, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Fellows ' Garden, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Gardens outside Wordsworth Building, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Sir Reginald Blomfield's Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Lady Margaret Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located at the end of Norham Gardens in north Oxford.

Lady Margaret Hall was founded in 1878 as the first women's college in Oxford, and did not accept men until 1979.

In 1983, five years after Mead had died, New Zealand anthropologist Derek Freeman, published Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth, in which he challenged Mead's major findings about sexuality in Samoan society.

( 1983 ) Margaret Mead and Samoa, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

The Daily Mirror was the only major newspaper to back Foot and Labour at the 1983 general election, urging its readers to vote Labour and " Stop the waste of our nation, for your job your children and your future " in response to the mass unemployment that had resulted from Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher's monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation.

It was after he polled several hundred votes in Margaret Thatcher's Finchley constituency in 1983 that the deposit paid by candidates was raised from £ 150 to £ 500.

By the early 1980s there was no clear neoconservative in the Tory leadership cadre, but Brian Mulroney, who became leader in 1983, eventually came to adopt many policies from the Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan governments.

Margaret Thatcher proclaimed in 1983: " We have a duty to make sure that every penny piece we raise in taxation is spent wisely and well.

He was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) representing the constituency of Blaby from 1974 – 92, and served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government of Margaret Thatcher from June 1983 to October 1989.

* " Murder in Coweta County " TV Movie ( 1983 ) Based on the same titled book by Margaret Anne Barnes that chronicles actual events around 1948.

* 1983 Joseph Haydn: The Creation – Chicago Symphony Chorus ; Margaret Hillis, director ; Sir Georg Solti, conductor ( London )

* Buchanan, Margaret ( 1983 ) St Kilda: a Photographic Album, W. Blackwood, ISBN 0-85158-162-5

During Margaret Thatcher's contraction of the coal industry, six pits within a two mile ( 3 km ) radius of the city centre were closed between 1979 and 1983.

The 1980s saw archaeological studies finally being published that dealt with this issue, namely through Joan Gero's paper on " Gender bias in archaeology: a cross-cultural perspective " ( 1983 ) and Margaret Conkey and Janet Spector ’ s paper on " Archaeology and the Study of Gender " ( 1984 ).

William Whitelaw was Margaret Thatcher's deputy from 1979 – 1988, a post he combined with that of Home Secretary in 1979 – 83 and Leader of the House of Lords after 1983.

However, in 1983, under the government of Margaret Thatcher, Sir David Serpell, a civil servant who had worked with Beeching, compiled what became known as the Serpell Report in which it was again proposed that a profitable railway ( if that was the aim ) could only be achieved by closing much of what remained.

In 1983, the Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appointed Ian MacGregor as head of the National Coal Board ( the UK statutory corporation that controlled coal mining ).

Margaret Mary Beckett ( née Jackson ; born 15 January 1943 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Derby South since 1983, rising to become the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under John Smith, from 18 July 1992 to 12 May 1994, and briefly serving as Leader of the Party following Smith's death.

A more recent short story, " Scarlet Ibis " by Margaret Atwood, is included in Bluebeard's Egg ( 1983 ).

The previously most high profile act occurred in 1983 when letter bombs were sent to Lady Diana Spencer and to the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.

After the 1983 election, Ridley-always regarded by Margaret Thatcher as " one of us "-was a beneficiary of her move to cull the Tory wets and joined her cabinet as Secretary of State for Transport.

Thatcher published her first book, Diary of an election: with Margaret Thatcher on the campaign trail in 1983.

Thatcher has written several books, including: Below the Parapet: the Biography of Denis Thatcher ( 1996 ) and Diary of an Election: with Margaret Thatcher on the Campaign Trail ( 1983 ).

King was brought into the Cabinet in 1983 by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Other non-fiction works followed: Gotcha, the Media, the Government and the Falklands Crisis ( 1983 ), The Making of Neil Kinnock ( 1984 ), Selling Hitler ( 1986 ), an investigation of the Hitler Diaries scandal, and Good and Faithful Servant ( 1990 ), a study of Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's press secretary.

From 1936 to 1949, Steig was married to educator and artist Elizabeth Mead Steig ( 1909 – 1983 ), sister of anthropologist Margaret Mead, from whom he was later divorced.