They're everywhere. An auntie of mine married a paratrooper called Terry Thomas.
Ok rabbits live near fresh water, so he wasn't big game fishing. Rule out the Carribean!
Calling a tie between all participants. None of you got it but neither would I have, I think. Modern search tools are seeming to become very weak on social history - easy to discover stuff but increasingly hard to find it. The lady is a Doffer, and replaces those spools (doffs) as they fill...
Well I might have been pulling the wool over your eyes with this one, but I washed it first! I think she's a dag detector - gets one of her minions to do the dirty work.
I managed to reverse track the answer with "what's the name for someone who puts up ends in a textile mill?" but I think it's only because I was writing the answer previously. The first two autocompletes here for "what's the name for someone who" were 1: only eat white meat. 2: identifies as a...
Not quite there yet. The lass has a particular. job description for what she's doing - and it was a skilled position.
A clue. What she's doing is "putting ends up". There's a single word for her in English and also in German. It's not the same word but either will do.
I don't speak German but...
I just found out they say "textile engineer" now. They would, wouldn't they.
This is more menial.
A South Hampton anti-Ludite?
Agh! Hissss! I told you never to talk about Southampton!
I was impressed by your observation a while back that Roman civil law had persisted so well in Germany. Obvious - how else to mediate disputes?
Rome the ever-present? And in later times the easy transposability of Rome as a shorthand for "the church". I can imagine conferences of cardinals and...
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