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 83
... five fellow - clergymen with eight bottles of port and one of Madeira , besides arrack punch , beer and cider . It was the hallmark of your true Englishman that he “ loved his can of flip . " In London alone there were more than five ...
... five fellow - clergymen with eight bottles of port and one of Madeira , besides arrack punch , beer and cider . It was the hallmark of your true Englishman that he “ loved his can of flip . " In London alone there were more than five ...
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Arthur Bryant. foreigner . Five times during the war , with the Baltic closed to her ships the harvest had failed , and ... five pounds of meat weekly . Even in the workhouses meat usually figured on the dietary three or four days a week ...
Arthur Bryant. foreigner . Five times during the war , with the Baltic closed to her ships the harvest had failed , and ... five pounds of meat weekly . Even in the workhouses meat usually figured on the dietary three or four days a week ...
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... five to seventy - five a week.1 The operatives who combed and sheared the cloth of the West Riding worked from four in the morning till eight at night . The London shops closed their shutters at midnight and opened again at dawn . When ...
... five to seventy - five a week.1 The operatives who combed and sheared the cloth of the West Riding worked from four in the morning till eight at night . The London shops closed their shutters at midnight and opened again at dawn . When ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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