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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Page 168
... miles in a month through the Highlands , rising always before dawn to complete twenty miles by noon . A penniless widow in a little Lincolnshire town made and hawked pasteboard boxes for sixteen hours a day to feed and educate her son ...
... miles in a month through the Highlands , rising always before dawn to complete twenty miles by noon . A penniless widow in a little Lincolnshire town made and hawked pasteboard boxes for sixteen hours a day to feed and educate her son ...
Page 178
... miles in every direction - which the seventh earl of Bridgewater employed Wyatt to build in place of the older Ash- ridge , the central staircase , flanked with statues by Westmacott , rose to nearly a hundred feet , and the walls - a ...
... miles in every direction - which the seventh earl of Bridgewater employed Wyatt to build in place of the older Ash- ridge , the central staircase , flanked with statues by Westmacott , rose to nearly a hundred feet , and the walls - a ...
Page 263
... miles of operating railway in the British Isles . The first railway boom in 1830-9 , following a run of good harvests and financed mainly by provincial money , added another 5,000 miles of projected track . Of these , 1,900 miles were ...
... miles of operating railway in the British Isles . The first railway boom in 1830-9 , following a run of good harvests and financed mainly by provincial money , added another 5,000 miles of projected track . Of these , 1,900 miles were ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
The Yellow Streak | 167 |
The Naked and Outcast | 193 |
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