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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Page 223
... Park opposite Knightsbridge , old Ann Hicks sold gilt gingerbreads and curds and whey and took her modest toll , won by half a century of pre- scription , of park brushwood and hurdles to make her fire . In the Bayswater road one could ...
... Park opposite Knightsbridge , old Ann Hicks sold gilt gingerbreads and curds and whey and took her modest toll , won by half a century of pre- scription , of park brushwood and hurdles to make her fire . In the Bayswater road one could ...
Page 226
... Park Corner and the royal gardens , the ox that was roasted whole in the park on Coronation Day , were all reminders that the capital of a great empire had not wholly shaken off the village . So were the estab- lished bad characters who ...
... Park Corner and the royal gardens , the ox that was roasted whole in the park on Coronation Day , were all reminders that the capital of a great empire had not wholly shaken off the village . So were the estab- lished bad characters who ...
Page 353
... Park Lane , 103 , 180 Parliament , Houses of , see under West- minster Paternoster Row , 29 Pay Office , 31 Penge , 216 Piccadilly , 26 , 147 , 217 , 218 , 221 , 224 , 289 Piccadilly Saloon , 221 Pimlico , 215 , 224 , 284 Poplar , 91 ...
... Park Lane , 103 , 180 Parliament , Houses of , see under West- minster Paternoster Row , 29 Pay Office , 31 Penge , 216 Piccadilly , 26 , 147 , 217 , 218 , 221 , 224 , 289 Piccadilly Saloon , 221 Pimlico , 215 , 224 , 284 Poplar , 91 ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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