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 10
... Welsh squires and on her mother's from East Anglian cloth- iers , her people laid the foundations of their future maritime ascend- ancy and , under her Stuart successors , founded beyond the At- lantic the thirteen colonies which were ...
... Welsh squires and on her mother's from East Anglian cloth- iers , her people laid the foundations of their future maritime ascend- ancy and , under her Stuart successors , founded beyond the At- lantic the thirteen colonies which were ...
Page 107
... Welsh valleys where a sturdy people - almost as broad as they were high - talked in a strange tongue , wore traditional dress and lived a life apart.2 Scotland , too , though its wealth had increased immeasurably in the past half ...
... Welsh valleys where a sturdy people - almost as broad as they were high - talked in a strange tongue , wore traditional dress and lived a life apart.2 Scotland , too , though its wealth had increased immeasurably in the past half ...
Page 144
... Welsh population of ten and a half millions enjoyed a parliamentary vote , and only 4000 out of two million Scots . Nor did the electorate even possess an absolute right to vote . It could be deprived of it by parliament , which if the ...
... Welsh population of ten and a half millions enjoyed a parliamentary vote , and only 4000 out of two million Scots . Nor did the electorate even possess an absolute right to vote . It could be deprived of it by parliament , which if the ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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