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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... remained by the end of the century - Somerset House , the Savoy ( itself divided into apartments ) , and Northumberland House - while the names Essex , Norfolk , Salisbury , Worcester , Exeter , Hungerford and York passed into a new ...
... remained by the end of the century - Somerset House , the Savoy ( itself divided into apartments ) , and Northumberland House - while the names Essex , Norfolk , Salisbury , Worcester , Exeter , Hungerford and York passed into a new ...
Page 117
... remained strong ; the young lovers in Manchester in the early years of the century would seek out and walk together in Tinker's Garden , " then a sweet bowery place . " 1 The first thing that struck every visitor to England was the ...
... remained strong ; the young lovers in Manchester in the early years of the century would seek out and walk together in Tinker's Garden , " then a sweet bowery place . " 1 The first thing that struck every visitor to England was the ...
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... remained unemployed and subsisted on 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 ...
... remained unemployed and subsisted on 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 ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
The Yellow Streak | 167 |
The Naked and Outcast | 193 |
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