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 29
... became anxious to rebuild . Moreover , many , who had gardens round their houses in the old London , recouped themselves for their losses by building houses and shops where formerly had been grass and trees . Mr. Swithin's spacious ...
... became anxious to rebuild . Moreover , many , who had gardens round their houses in the old London , recouped themselves for their losses by building houses and shops where formerly had been grass and trees . Mr. Swithin's spacious ...
Page 186
... became called , with the English genius for illogicality , public schools . They mixed the older aristocracy with the new commercial and professional classes , but segregated both from the children of the poor . At the same time the ...
... became called , with the English genius for illogicality , public schools . They mixed the older aristocracy with the new commercial and professional classes , but segregated both from the children of the poor . At the same time the ...
Page 209
... became and the more eager the rich to buy , the greater became the temptation of the poor to sell . Every year the amount of land in well - to - do hands increased . It was leased from them at high rents by a new race of tenant farmer ...
... became and the more eager the rich to buy , the greater became the temptation of the poor to sell . Every year the amount of land in well - to - do hands increased . It was leased from them at high rents by a new race of tenant farmer ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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