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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... hundred spires and , dominating all , the nave and tower of St. Paul's . The spire of the cathedral had fallen many years before , and the nave had been half ruined by generations of decay and the depredations of the Interregnum ...
... hundred spires and , dominating all , the nave and tower of St. Paul's . The spire of the cathedral had fallen many years before , and the nave had been half ruined by generations of decay and the depredations of the Interregnum ...
Page 145
... hundred viewed with sturdy contempt a bureaucracy recruited by jobbery . The country gentleman who named a litter of puppies , Placeman , Pensioner , Pilferer and Plunderer , was expressing this feeling.1 Any attempt to increase the ...
... hundred viewed with sturdy contempt a bureaucracy recruited by jobbery . The country gentleman who named a litter of puppies , Placeman , Pensioner , Pilferer and Plunderer , was expressing this feeling.1 Any attempt to increase the ...
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... hundred enclosure Bills were passed , four hundred more than in the previous forty years . In no other way could the supply of home- grown food - and none other was available - have kept pace with the population . Growing numbers of ...
... hundred enclosure Bills were passed , four hundred more than in the previous forty years . In no other way could the supply of home- grown food - and none other was available - have kept pace with the population . Growing numbers of ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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