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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“ I hope , ” a husband wrote , “ that I shall yet live to see my little round wife come tumbling home to her brats with a brat in her belly . ” For economic reasons the poor married and bred late , but better - to - do parents were ...
“ I hope , ” a husband wrote , “ that I shall yet live to see my little round wife come tumbling home to her brats with a brat in her belly . ” For economic reasons the poor married and bred late , but better - to - do parents were ...
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In the West the yule - log was brought home and tales told over posset and frumenty , and the carollers and string - choirs went their frosty rounds . With the farmhouses and cottages full of greenery and the kissing - bush hanging from ...
In the West the yule - log was brought home and tales told over posset and frumenty , and the carollers and string - choirs went their frosty rounds . With the farmhouses and cottages full of greenery and the kissing - bush hanging from ...
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From sandy Norfolk came the enormous turkeys = " the grand Norfolkian holocaust " that at Christmas smoked round Elia's nostrils from a thousand firesides . The stony fields round Bridport were blue with hemp and flax .
From sandy Norfolk came the enormous turkeys = " the grand Norfolkian holocaust " that at Christmas smoked round Elia's nostrils from a thousand firesides . The stony fields round Bridport were blue with hemp and flax .
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Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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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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