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 133
... women that so shocked Dorothy Wordsworth in the Low Countries . Such distress as existed was tucked away out of sight ; one had , wrote Simond , who spent two years towards the end of the war studying the country's institutions , to go ...
... women that so shocked Dorothy Wordsworth in the Low Countries . Such distress as existed was tucked away out of sight ; one had , wrote Simond , who spent two years towards the end of the war studying the country's institutions , to go ...
Page 193
... woman and emaciated children wait- ing for him outside the tap - room - who , as Bill Sikes , matriculated from burglary ... women and half - naked children wallowing in pools and kennels . The improvements effected by eighteenth century ...
... woman and emaciated children wait- ing for him outside the tap - room - who , as Bill Sikes , matriculated from burglary ... women and half - naked children wallowing in pools and kennels . The improvements effected by eighteenth century ...
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... women nursed in a kindlier tradition it seemed an outrage that old folk who had laboured all their lives and become destitute through no fault of their own should be torn from their homes , separated from each other's company and herded ...
... women nursed in a kindlier tradition it seemed an outrage that old folk who had laboured all their lives and become destitute through no fault of their own should be torn from their homes , separated from each other's company and herded ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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