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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... farm , The never - failing brook , the busy mill , The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill , The hawthorn bush , with seats beneath the shade For talking age and whispering lovers made . " Poverty there was and injustice ...
... farm , The never - failing brook , the busy mill , The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill , The hawthorn bush , with seats beneath the shade For talking age and whispering lovers made . " Poverty there was and injustice ...
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... farms at eight or nine years of age , learning their fathers ' lore and working as long as their elders . For all ... farm labourer's work was supplemented by a host of rustic 1 Cobbett I 81 ; Clapham I 199-201 ; Eland 21 , 70-1 , 127 ...
... farms at eight or nine years of age , learning their fathers ' lore and working as long as their elders . For all ... farm labourer's work was supplemented by a host of rustic 1 Cobbett I 81 ; Clapham I 199-201 ; Eland 21 , 70-1 , 127 ...
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... farm labourer in an en- closed village gained nothing from its increased price . On the contrary , having to buy ... farm domestics . Many of the smaller farmhouses disappeared altogether in the engrossment of farms which followed the ...
... farm labourer in an en- closed village gained nothing from its increased price . On the contrary , having to buy ... farm domestics . Many of the smaller farmhouses disappeared altogether in the engrossment of farms which followed 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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