Set in a Silver SeaA 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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... broad as they were high - talked in a strange tongue , wore traditional dress and lived a life apart.2 Scotland , too , though its wealth had increased immeasurably in the past half century , was a poor land compared with England .
... broad as they were high - talked in a strange tongue , wore traditional dress and lived a life apart.2 Scotland , too , though its wealth had increased immeasurably in the past half century , was a poor land compared with England .
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... of which they were usually past - masters . Many were decent and kindly men , like the Manchester counterpane and bed - quilt manufacturer for whom Bamford worked at the beginning of the century , or his successor , who read prayers ...
... of which they were usually past - masters . Many were decent and kindly men , like the Manchester counterpane and bed - quilt manufacturer for whom Bamford worked at the beginning of the century , or his successor , who read prayers ...
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Here the rural gentry , still untouched by commerce and living on the cultivation of the classical and leisured past , had its strong roots , sending out its shoots into the professional and administrative life of the nation and empire ...
Here the rural gentry , still untouched by commerce and living on the cultivation of the classical and leisured past , had its strong roots , sending out its shoots into the professional and administrative life of the nation and empire ...
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Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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| Title | Set in a Silver Sea Anchor A680 Volume 680 of Anchor books Doubleday anchor books English social history |
| Author | Arthur Bryant |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 May 2007 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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