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 155
... Poor , a School for the Indigent Blind , and a number of free schools , all supported by what was called public patronage . Every village had at least one ancient en- dowment ; at East Burnham in Buckinghamshire there was a free school ...
... Poor , a School for the Indigent Blind , and a number of free schools , all supported by what was called public patronage . Every village had at least one ancient en- dowment ; at East Burnham in Buckinghamshire there was a free school ...
Page 248
... poor Jack was ashamed , and said : ' No , I know this is not my work , but my poor missus is i̇ the factory ; she has to leave at half - past five and works till eight at night , and then she is so knocked up that she cannot do aught ...
... poor Jack was ashamed , and said : ' No , I know this is not my work , but my poor missus is i̇ the factory ; she has to leave at half - past five and works till eight at night , and then she is so knocked up that she cannot do aught ...
Page 249
... poor relief or beggary . " At the gates of all the London docks , " an East End preacher testified , “ hundreds of the poor appear every morning in winter before daybreak , in the hope of getting a day's work . They await the opening of ...
... poor relief or beggary . " At the gates of all the London docks , " an East End preacher testified , “ hundreds of the poor appear every morning in winter before daybreak , in the hope of getting a day's work . They await the opening of ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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