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 46
... Council Room , still contending for that royal ear whose retention was at once the hardest and most precious achieve- ment of a careerist's life . Here in the Gallery , for a moment , opportunity flitted by . From the Stone Gallery ...
... Council Room , still contending for that royal ear whose retention was at once the hardest and most precious achieve- ment of a careerist's life . Here in the Gallery , for a moment , opportunity flitted by . From the Stone Gallery ...
Page 320
... Councils with control of local affairs and taxation . In that year London achieved its County Council - presently to revolu- tionise the life of its poorer inhabitants . The services of communal life , which individual effort had failed ...
... Councils with control of local affairs and taxation . In that year London achieved its County Council - presently to revolu- tionise the life of its poorer inhabitants . The services of communal life , which individual effort had failed ...
Page 332
... Council houses , but bad digestions , unin- spiring surroundings and the instability of a commercial system based not on human welfare but on profits . They were better off than their parents , but they were not satisfied with their lot ...
... Council houses , but bad digestions , unin- spiring surroundings and the instability of a commercial system based not on human welfare but on profits . They were better off than their parents , but they were not satisfied with their lot ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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