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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a property : the greater landowners in the House of Lords , the lesser in the Commons , side by side with the burgesses who represented the nation's mercantile interest . Such an assembly was tender to the taxpayer , unsympathetic to ...
a property : the greater landowners in the House of Lords , the lesser in the Commons , side by side with the burgesses who represented the nation's mercantile interest . Such an assembly was tender to the taxpayer , unsympathetic to ...
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Before the war , even on the main trunk roads , postilions had had to quarter ceaselessly from side to side to avoid huge pools of water and ruts deep enough to break a horse's leg ; as late as the winter of 1797–8 the highway from ...
Before the war , even on the main trunk roads , postilions had had to quarter ceaselessly from side to side to avoid huge pools of water and ruts deep enough to break a horse's leg ; as late as the winter of 1797–8 the highway from ...
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Such men were the poorest of the poor - the flotsam and jetsam of the water - side . They were unorganised , despised even by their fellow workers , without hope or craft . They slept in the fo'c'sles of empty ships and subsisted on ...
Such men were the poorest of the poor - the flotsam and jetsam of the water - side . They were unorganised , despised even by their fellow workers , without hope or craft . They slept in the fo'c'sles of empty ships and subsisted on ...
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Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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