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 36
... fields were never far away ; trees invaded the streets and squares ; there were gardens lurking behind the houses , and nightingales in Lincoln's Inn . And since the fields were so near , the recreations of the citizens were still in ...
... fields were never far away ; trees invaded the streets and squares ; there were gardens lurking behind the houses , and nightingales in Lincoln's Inn . And since the fields were so near , the recreations of the citizens were still in ...
Page 119
... fields in Hertfordshire ? " This landscape was constantly being enriched . It was ditched , hoed and hedged to an extent elsewhere unknown . Stacks over forty feet high , meticulously finished and roofed with straw , barns built to ...
... fields in Hertfordshire ? " This landscape was constantly being enriched . It was ditched , hoed and hedged to an extent elsewhere unknown . Stacks over forty feet high , meticulously finished and roofed with straw , barns built to ...
Page 352
... Fields , 131 Coleman Street , 29 Colosseum , 225 Copthall Court , 29 Cornhill , 30 Covent Garden , 30 , 37 , 43 ... Fields , 221 Leicester Square , 225 , 287 Limehouse , 19 , 91 , 169 Lincoln's Inn , 188 Lincoln's Inn Fields , 24 , 30 ...
... Fields , 131 Coleman Street , 29 Colosseum , 225 Copthall Court , 29 Cornhill , 30 Covent Garden , 30 , 37 , 43 ... Fields , 221 Leicester Square , 225 , 287 Limehouse , 19 , 91 , 169 Lincoln's Inn , 188 Lincoln's Inn Fields , 24 , 30 ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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