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 119
... seemed almost universal . " The white farms , . . . the well - stocked rickyards behind , " wrote Mary Mitford , " tell of comfort and order . " Yet every shire , every parish , differed in its farming methods , being cultivated in the ...
... seemed almost universal . " The white farms , . . . the well - stocked rickyards behind , " wrote Mary Mitford , " tell of comfort and order . " Yet every shire , every parish , differed in its farming methods , being cultivated in the ...
Page 165
... seemed , as the masts in the river . Above them the cliffs of Wren's vast cathedral carried the eye upwards to a remote golden cross and ball . The dome on which these symbols rode belonged to a different world from the houses below ...
... seemed , as the masts in the river . Above them the cliffs of Wren's vast cathedral carried the eye upwards to a remote golden cross and ball . The dome on which these symbols rode belonged to a different world from the houses below ...
Page 267
... seemed to matter but getting rich . Whoever could do so was honoured : whoever failed was passed by and trampled under foot . In Merthyr Tydfil , where an army of iron - workers lived , sleeping sometimes sixteen in a room , there were ...
... seemed to matter but getting rich . Whoever could do so was honoured : whoever failed was passed by and trampled under foot . In Merthyr Tydfil , where an army of iron - workers lived , sleeping sometimes sixteen in a room , there were ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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