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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... less rough and imaginative , better mannered and more intimate than had been afforded by the older pre - Commonwealth drama . From their little picture stages , with their green baize coverings , their scenery screens " embellished with ...
... less rough and imaginative , better mannered and more intimate than had been afforded by the older pre - Commonwealth drama . From their little picture stages , with their green baize coverings , their scenery screens " embellished with ...
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... less than seven and twenty prebends and nineteen canons , besides a dean , a preceptor , a chancellor and an archdeacon . Here the high pomps of Anglicanism - for a generation banished as idolatry -- were revived in all their glory . At ...
... less than seven and twenty prebends and nineteen canons , besides a dean , a preceptor , a chancellor and an archdeacon . Here the high pomps of Anglicanism - for a generation banished as idolatry -- were revived in all their glory . At ...
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... less and drawn by oxen . Where the innovators were successful they reaped a rich reward . In some cases the rentals of lands enclosed increased threefold ; those of one Cambridge college rose during the last half of the century from ...
... less and drawn by oxen . Where the innovators were successful they reaped a rich reward . In some cases the rentals of lands enclosed increased threefold ; those of one Cambridge college rose during the last half of the century from ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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