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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All round the town were the green places to which the Londoners repaired whenever their occasions allowed them : Hyde Park , with its balustraded ring round which the coaches drove the rich and fashionable ; Moorfields with its mulberry ...
All round the town were the green places to which the Londoners repaired whenever their occasions allowed them : Hyde Park , with its balustraded ring round which the coaches drove the rich and fashionable ; Moorfields with its mulberry ...
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The field labourer's wear was a straw hat and a round smock frock - blue , tawny or olive - green , but usually white - worn over leggings , breeches and doublet . Beautifully hemmed and embroidered , such smocks were perfectly adapted ...
The field labourer's wear was a straw hat and a round smock frock - blue , tawny or olive - green , but usually white - worn over leggings , breeches and doublet . Beautifully hemmed and embroidered , such smocks were perfectly adapted ...
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At Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire on the first Monday after September 4th , the Deer Men with their hobby horses danced the Horn Dance in painted reindeer heads and ancient costumes of red and green . In May , at the Furry Festival at ...
At Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire on the first Monday after September 4th , the Deer Men with their hobby horses danced the Horn Dance in painted reindeer heads and ancient costumes of red and green . In May , at the Furry Festival at ...
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Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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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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