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 26
... Quaker cook's , upon the Mall Bank , Westminster . ” Behind the streets were courtyards and lanes , sometimes giving access on to a hundred others , sometimes ending in nothing , like that " blind alley , on the backside of Mr. Trice's ...
... Quaker cook's , upon the Mall Bank , Westminster . ” Behind the streets were courtyards and lanes , sometimes giving access on to a hundred others , sometimes ending in nothing , like that " blind alley , on the backside of Mr. Trice's ...
Page 44
... Quaker's and Roman Catholicism . The Quakers had few friends . Despite the ultimate gentleness of their tenets , their outrages against contemporary manners won them enemies in all places . One of them , a woman , rose in the middle of ...
... Quaker's and Roman Catholicism . The Quakers had few friends . Despite the ultimate gentleness of their tenets , their outrages against contemporary manners won them enemies in all places . One of them , a woman , rose in the middle of ...
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... Quaker member of Glad- stone's first Liberal Administration , introduced an Education Act , setting up compulsory Local School Boards to provide secular ele- mentary education for all children between the ages of five and thirteen1 not ...
... Quaker member of Glad- stone's first Liberal Administration , introduced an Education Act , setting up compulsory Local School Boards to provide secular ele- mentary education for all children between the ages of five and thirteen1 not ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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