Set in a Silver SeaA 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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Their engineered gradients , culverts and bridges raised the speed of post - chaises and coaches from four or five to ten and even twelve miles an hour . The cost of such travel remained heavy ; an inside ticket from London to Liverpool ...
Their engineered gradients , culverts and bridges raised the speed of post - chaises and coaches from four or five to ten and even twelve miles an hour . The cost of such travel remained heavy ; an inside ticket from London to Liverpool ...
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For four miles from London Bridge to Deptford the forest of masts was almost continuous . Often there were two thousand seagoing ships lying in the river - more than four times the number a century before .
For four miles from London Bridge to Deptford the forest of masts was almost continuous . Often there were two thousand seagoing ships lying in the river - more than four times the number a century before .
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In 1811 four - fifths of the Midland stockingers ' frames were scattered in more than two hundred and fifty villages with an average of twenty - two stockingers apiece , each operating three or four frames . Yet whenever markets dried ...
In 1811 four - fifths of the Midland stockingers ' frames were scattered in more than two hundred and fifty villages with an average of twenty - two stockingers apiece , each operating three or four frames . Yet whenever markets dried ...
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Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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| Title | Set in a Silver Sea Anchor A680 Volume 680 of Anchor books Doubleday anchor books English social history |
| Author | Arthur Bryant |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 31 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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