Set in a Silver SeaDoubleday, 1968 - 359 pages A social history of England from the days of the first Stuart king, James, when England was largely an agricultural and rural country, through the reign of Queen Victoria, when England had become the world's foremost industrial and Imperial giant. |
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... Christ's teaching and Christian doctrine . After Henry's death and during the brief reign of his son the flood- gates opened wide , and the attempts to close them of the devout Mary Tudor - daughter of Henry's divorced Spanish wife ...
... Christ's teaching and Christian doctrine . After Henry's death and during the brief reign of his son the flood- gates opened wide , and the attempts to close them of the devout Mary Tudor - daughter of Henry's divorced Spanish wife ...
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... Christian traditions and in- fluences among which they grew up . A generation after Waterloo a third of Manchester's children attended neither church , chapel nor school . The stony places in which the dispossessed took root tended ...
... Christian traditions and in- fluences among which they grew up . A generation after Waterloo a third of Manchester's children attended neither church , chapel nor school . The stony places in which the dispossessed took root tended ...
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... Christian zeal among humbler folk was by 1840 more often to be found among the Methodists and in the Baptist and Independent congregations of the older nonconformity . Of a somewhat primitive and uncritical kind , made up in fervour and ...
... Christian zeal among humbler folk was by 1840 more often to be found among the Methodists and in the Baptist and Independent congregations of the older nonconformity . Of a somewhat primitive and uncritical kind , made up in fervour and ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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