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 131
... five- father , mother , baby , and two growing children - needed daily five pounds of bread , two pounds of bacon , one pound of mutton and a gallon and a half of beer . But though in Kent before the war the farm - worker had enjoyed ...
... five- father , mother , baby , and two growing children - needed daily five pounds of bread , two pounds of bacon , one pound of mutton and a gallon and a half of beer . But though in Kent before the war the farm - worker had enjoyed ...
Page 167
... five to seventy - five a week.1 The operatives who combed and sheared the cloth of the West Riding worked from four in the morning till eight at night . The London shops closed their shutters at midnight and opened again at dawn . When ...
... five to seventy - five a week.1 The operatives who combed and sheared the cloth of the West Riding worked from four in the morning till eight at night . The London shops closed their shutters at midnight and opened again at dawn . When ...
Page 208
... five days in a week to the tune of five thousand pounds in a year , now find out that the profits of trade will not allow the innocent communications of thought between their underlings and their friends in distant provinces to proceed ...
... five days in a week to the tune of five thousand pounds in a year , now find out that the profits of trade will not allow the innocent communications of thought between their underlings and their friends in distant provinces to proceed ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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