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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... garden walls , the pillared market - halls . Such towns crowned nearly a thousand years of unbroken civilisation . From their upper windows one looked across gardens to fields , woods and clear rivers whose waters carried trout and ...
... garden walls , the pillared market - halls . Such towns crowned nearly a thousand years of unbroken civilisation . From their upper windows one looked across gardens to fields , woods and clear rivers whose waters carried trout and ...
Page 215
... gardens continued almost to Hampton Court . For the first time in its history it was venturing away from the river ; houses , skirting the new Regent's Park , strayed into the fields and farms of Primrose Hill where children still ...
... gardens continued almost to Hampton Court . For the first time in its history it was venturing away from the river ; houses , skirting the new Regent's Park , strayed into the fields and farms of Primrose Hill where children still ...
Page 352
... Garden , 30 , 37 , 43 , 223 Cremorne , 271 Crockford's Club , 156 , 190 " Crooked Billet " , the , 26 Crystal Palace ... Gardens , 181 , 182 , 197 , 198 , 226 " King's Arms " , Coleman Street , 29 King's Bench prison , 31 King Street ...
... Garden , 30 , 37 , 43 , 223 Cremorne , 271 Crockford's Club , 156 , 190 " Crooked Billet " , the , 26 Crystal Palace ... Gardens , 181 , 182 , 197 , 198 , 226 " King's Arms " , Coleman Street , 29 King's Bench prison , 31 King Street ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 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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