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 117
... trees in the evening twilight , the drinking cattle and homing rooks , the mystery and the mist . Though England's forests had long been shorn to feed her fleets and furnaces , the sense of fine trees was all - pervading . She was still ...
... trees in the evening twilight , the drinking cattle and homing rooks , the mystery and the mist . Though England's forests had long been shorn to feed her fleets and furnaces , the sense of fine trees was all - pervading . She was still ...
Page 215
... trees and large gardens continued almost to Hampton Court . For the first time in its history it was venturing away from the river ; houses , skirting the new Regent's Park , strayed into the fields and farms of Primrose Hill where ...
... trees and large gardens continued almost to Hampton Court . For the first time in its history it was venturing away from the river ; houses , skirting the new Regent's Park , strayed into the fields and farms of Primrose Hill where ...
Page 290
... trees , and young ladies in flowing skirts and jackets and little feathered caps played croquet on ancient lawns or gossiped over " hair brushings " in rooms once habited by Elizabethan statesmen and Carolean divines . The great parks ...
... trees , and young ladies in flowing skirts and jackets and little feathered caps played croquet on ancient lawns or gossiped over " hair brushings " in rooms once habited by Elizabethan statesmen and Carolean divines . The great parks ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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