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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At Brighton , a town in 1811 of 14,000 people , there were neither justices nor municipality , yet crime was almost unknown and the doors left unbarred at night . The capital , the world's largest city , was patrolled by a handful of ...
At Brighton , a town in 1811 of 14,000 people , there were neither justices nor municipality , yet crime was almost unknown and the doors left unbarred at night . The capital , the world's largest city , was patrolled by a handful of ...
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The cellar populations of Manchester and Liverpool , nearly 18,000 in the former and more in the latter , were without any means of removing night - soil from the habitations . Even for those who lived above ground water - closets were ...
The cellar populations of Manchester and Liverpool , nearly 18,000 in the former and more in the latter , were without any means of removing night - soil from the habitations . Even for those who lived above ground water - closets were ...
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On the night before the great day every tavern and public - house in London remained open all night until the word went round where the trains to the secret ringside were to start . Sayers was thirty - four , stood five foot eight.
On the night before the great day every tavern and public - house in London remained open all night until the word went round where the trains to the secret ringside were to start . Sayers was thirty - four , stood five foot eight.
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Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 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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