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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... against the surviving half of Christendom , the tables were turned on them by ocean sea - power . It was to prove a second and vaster Salamis . In that at first unrealised victory for Europe - for 8 SET IN A SILVER SEA.
... against the surviving half of Christendom , the tables were turned on them by ocean sea - power . It was to prove a second and vaster Salamis . In that at first unrealised victory for Europe - for 8 SET IN A SILVER SEA.
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... turned it into a half a crown by begging a lift to Hull , fifty miles away , and re- turned with a bag of cockles for sale in his native town . From Peg Pimpleface , the costermonger's daughter , driving her donkey - cart round Poplar ...
... turned it into a half a crown by begging a lift to Hull , fifty miles away , and re- turned with a bag of cockles for sale in his native town . From Peg Pimpleface , the costermonger's daughter , driving her donkey - cart round Poplar ...
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... turned out wooden ships of a quality unmatched throughout the world , made by men who had learnt their craft - part of England's hereditary wealth - from their for- bears . " His father's name before him was Chips GREEN PASTURES 239.
... turned out wooden ships of a quality unmatched throughout the world , made by men who had learnt their craft - part of England's hereditary wealth - from their for- bears . " His father's name before him was Chips GREEN PASTURES 239.
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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