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The Angel, St Giles High Street, the Glossary

The Angel is a historic public house and former coaching inn on St Giles High Street, in the St Giles district of the West End of London.^[1]

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Pubs in the London Borough of Camden

Black British people

Black British people are a multi-ethnic group of British people of either African or Afro-Caribbean descent.

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Black Loyalist

Black Loyalists were people of African descent who sided with the Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War.

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The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is an independent voluntary consumer organisation headquartered in St Albans, England, which promotes real ale, cider and perry and traditional British pubs and clubs.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charrington Brewery

Charrington Brewery was founded in Bethnal Green, London, in the early 18th century by Robert Westfield.

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Churchwarden

A churchwarden is a lay official in a parish or congregation of the Anglican Communion or Catholic Church, usually working as a part-time volunteer.

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City of London

The City of London, also known as the City, is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the ancient centre, and constitutes, along with Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London and one of the leading financial centres of the world.

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City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is a London borough with city status in Greater London, England.

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City Press (London)

City Press was a British newspaper published during the 19th and early-20th centuries by W H & L Collingridge Ltd.

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Coaching inn

The coaching inn (also coaching house or staging inn) was a vital part of Europe's inland transport infrastructure until the development of the railway, providing a resting point (layover) for people and horses. The Angel, St Giles High Street and coaching inn are coaching inns.

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Denmark Street

Denmark Street is a street on the edge of London's West End running from Charing Cross Road to St Giles High Street.

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Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor.

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Digital electronics

Digital electronics is a field of electronics involving the study of digital signals and the engineering of devices that use or produce them.

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Dissolution of the monasteries

The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Drury Lane

Drury Lane is a street on the eastern boundary of the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn.

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Duke of Bedford

Duke of Bedford (named after Bedford, England) is a title that has been created six times (for five distinct people) in the Peerage of England.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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Gallows

A gallows (or less precisely scaffold) is a frame or elevated beam, typically wooden, from which objects can be suspended or "weighed".

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell.

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George Walter Thornbury

George Walter Thornbury (13 November 1828 – 11 June 1876) was an English author.

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High Victorian Gothic

High Victorian Gothic was an eclectic architectural style and movement during the mid-late 19th century.

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Highwayman

A highwayman was a robber who stole from travellers.

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Huguenots

The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism.

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Jack Ketch

John Ketch (died November 1686), generally known as Jack Ketch, was an infamous English executioner employed by King Charles II.

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Jack Sheppard

John "Jack" Sheppard (4 March 1702 – 16 November 1724), or "Honest Jack", was a notorious English thief and prison escapee of early 18th-century London.

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John Austin (highwayman)

John Austin (died 7 November 1783) was an English footpad who became the last person to be hanged at the Tyburn gallows just outside London.

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John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland

John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504Loades 2008 – 22 August 1553) was an English general, admiral, and politician, who led the government of the young King Edward VI from 1550 until 1553, and unsuccessfully tried to install Lady Jane Grey on the English throne after the King's death.

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John Nevison

John Nevison (1639 – 4 May 1684), also known as William Nevison or Nevinson, was one of Britain's most notorious highwaymen, a gentleman rogue supposedly nicknamed Swift Nick by King Charles II after a renowned dash from Kent to York to establish an alibi for a robbery he had committed earlier that day.

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Jonathan Wild

Jonathan Wild, also spelled Wilde (1682 or 1683 – 24 May 1725), was an English thief-taker and a major figure in London's criminal underworld, notable for operating on both sides of the law, posing as a public-spirited vigilante entitled the "Thief-Taker General".

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Mazer (drinking vessel)

A mazer is a special type of wooden drinking vessel, a wide cup or shallow bowl without handles, with a broad flat foot and a knob or boss in the centre of the inside, known technically as the "print" or "boss".

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Newgate

Newgate was one of the historic seven gates of the London Wall around the City of London and one of the six which date back to Roman times.

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Old Bailey

The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey after the street on which it stands, is a criminal court building in central London, one of several that house the Crown Court of England and Wales.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Oxford Street

Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch via Oxford Circus.

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Pete Postlethwaite

Peter William Postlethwaite, (7 February 1946 – 2 January 2011) was an English actor best known for his work as a character actor.

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Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London.

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Phoenix Theatre, London

The Phoenix Theatre is a West End theatre in the London Borough of Camden, located in Charing Cross Road (on the corner of Flitcroft Street).

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Pub

A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.

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Public execution

A public execution is a form of capital punishment which "members of the general public may voluntarily attend." This definition excludes the presence of only a small number of witnesses called upon to assure executive accountability.

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Richard II (play)

The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, commonly called Richard II, is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around 1595.

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Samuel Smith Old Brewery

Samuel Smith Old Brewery, popularly known as Samuel Smith's or Sam Smith's, is an independent, British brewery and pub operator based in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire that traces its origins to 1758, and claims to be Yorkshire's oldest brewery.

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Smartphone

A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.

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Smithfield, London

Smithfield, properly known as West Smithfield, is a district located in Central London, part of Farringdon Without, the most westerly ward of the City of London, England.

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Somerset v Stewart

Somerset v Stewart (1772) (also known as Sommersett v Steuart, Somersett's case, and the Mansfield Judgment) is a judgment of the English Court of King's Bench in 1772, relating to the right of an enslaved person on English soil not to be forcibly removed from the country and sent to Jamaica for sale.

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St Giles in the Fields

St Giles in the Fields is the Anglican parish church of the St Giles district of London.

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St Giles, London

St Giles is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Camden.

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Strong ale

Strong ale is a type of ale, usually above 5% abv and often higher, between 7 and 11% abv, which spans a number of beer styles, including old ale, barley wine, and Burton ale.

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Tadcaster

Tadcaster is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, north-east of Leeds and south-west of York.

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The Moon Under Water

"The Moon Under Water" is a 1946 essay by George Orwell, originally published as the Saturday Essay in the Evening Standard on 9 February 1946, in which he provided a detailed description of his ideal public house, the fictitious "Moon Under Water".

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The Newgate Calendar

The Newgate Calendar, subtitled The Malefactors' Bloody Register, was a popular collection of moralising stories about sin, crime, and criminals who commit them in England in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Thomas Killigrew

Thomas Killigrew (7 February 1612 – 19 March 1683) was an English dramatist and theatre manager.

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Thomas Legh (lawyer)

Sir Thomas Leigh or Legh (?1511–1545) was an English jurist and diplomat, who played a key role as agent of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell in the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

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Tom Cox (highwayman)

Thomas Cox (– 12 September 1690), known as "The Handsome Highwayman", was an English highwayman, sentenced to death and hanged at Tyburn.

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Tyburn

Tyburn was a manor (estate) in the county of Middlesex, England, one of two which were served by the parish of Marylebone.

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West Country

The West Country (An Tir West) is a loosely defined area within southwest England, usually taken to include the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol, with some considering it to extend to all or parts of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.

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West End of London

The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is a district of Central London, London, England, west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated.

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West End theatre

West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Angel,_St_Giles_High_Street

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