Truro (UK Parliament Constituency)
Truro was the name of a parliamentary constituency in Cornwall represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1295 until 1918 and from 1950 to 1997. Until 1885 it was a parliamentary borough electing two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election; the name was then transferred to the surrounding county constituency, which elected one MP by the first past the post system. In 1997, though there had been no changes to its boundaries, it was renamed Truro and St Austell, reflecting the fact that St Austell has a larger population than Truro.
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“A village seems thus, where its able-bodied men are all plowing the ocean together, as a common field. In North Truro the women and girls may sit at their doors, and see where their husbands and brothers are harvesting their mackerel fifteen or twenty miles off, on the sea, with hundreds of white harvest wagons, just as in the country the farmers’ wives sometimes see their husbands working in a distant hillside field. But the sound of no dinner-horn can reach the fisher’s ear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The war shook down the Tsardom, an unspeakable abomination, and made an end of the new German Empire and the old Apostolic Austrian one. It ... gave votes and seats in Parliament to women.... But if society can be reformed only by the accidental results of horrible catastrophes ... what hope is there for mankind in them? The war was a horror and everybody is the worse for it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)