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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... early summer day of 1842 , the eye lighted on a jumble of old houses and red - tiled roofs mingling with the foliage and blossom of Spring Gardens . Along the Mall the trees still straggled anyhow , unregimented into their modern rows ...
... early summer day of 1842 , the eye lighted on a jumble of old houses and red - tiled roofs mingling with the foliage and blossom of Spring Gardens . Along the Mall the trees still straggled anyhow , unregimented into their modern rows ...
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... early ' sixties , Britain had things very much her own way at sea for three halcyon decades . The new iron ships , triumphs of the marine engineering works of the Clyde and Tyne , of Birkenhead and Belfast , were beginning to come into ...
... early ' sixties , Britain had things very much her own way at sea for three halcyon decades . The new iron ships , triumphs of the marine engineering works of the Clyde and Tyne , of Birkenhead and Belfast , were beginning to come into ...
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... Early Victorian England . Early Victorian England , 1830-1865 ( ed . G. M. Young ) . 1934 . Eden . F. M. Eden , The State of the Poor ( ed . A. G. L. Rogers ) . 1905 . Eland . G. Eland , In Bucks . 1923 . Engels . F. Engels , The ...
... Early Victorian England . Early Victorian England , 1830-1865 ( ed . G. M. Young ) . 1934 . Eden . F. M. Eden , The State of the Poor ( ed . A. G. L. Rogers ) . 1905 . Eland . G. Eland , In Bucks . 1923 . Engels . F. Engels , 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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