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 22
... population of the kingdom , and stretched from Westminster to All Hallows , Barking , and from Shoreditch to St. George's Fields . But there were as yet no buildings north of St. James's Park or west of St. Martin's ; St. Giles was ...
... population of the kingdom , and stretched from Westminster to All Hallows , Barking , and from Shoreditch to St. George's Fields . But there were as yet no buildings north of St. James's Park or west of St. Martin's ; St. Giles was ...
Page 256
... population destitute , were forced to appeal to the Government for help . Idlers with faces haggard with famine stood in the streets , their eyes wearing the fierce and uneasy expression of despair . A doctor who visited the town in ...
... population destitute , were forced to appeal to the Government for help . Idlers with faces haggard with famine stood in the streets , their eyes wearing the fierce and uneasy expression of despair . A doctor who visited the town in ...
Page 290
... population of England began to exceed the rural . But agriculture remained the great central productive industry of the country , excelling in importance and influence even cotton . The competition of the new wheat - growing lands ...
... population of England began to exceed the rural . But agriculture remained the great central productive industry of the country , excelling in importance and influence even cotton . The competition of the new wheat - growing lands ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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