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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... gardens , were scattered round the western outskirts— Bedford , Wallingford , and Burlington Houses and the vast ... garden with a wash house in it , " carrying a rental of fifty - five pounds a year . Rising above the houses of rich and ...
... gardens , were scattered round the western outskirts— Bedford , Wallingford , and Burlington Houses and the vast ... garden with a wash house in it , " carrying a rental of fifty - five pounds a year . Rising above the houses of rich and ...
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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 ...
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... 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 ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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