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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... Society , a Ladies ' Charity , a Lunatic Hospital , a Magdalene Society , an Institution for restoring Drowned Persons , a Strangers ' Friendly Society , a Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor , a ...
... Society , a Ladies ' Charity , a Lunatic Hospital , a Magdalene Society , an Institution for restoring Drowned Persons , a Strangers ' Friendly Society , a Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor , a ...
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Arthur Bryant. and one for the Conversion and Education of Negro Slaves : a Society for Protecting Trade against sharpers and swindlers , and a Society for giving Bibles to Soldiers and Sailors . Almost every corporate national activity ...
Arthur Bryant. and one for the Conversion and Education of Negro Slaves : a Society for Protecting Trade against sharpers and swindlers , and a Society for giving Bibles to Soldiers and Sailors . Almost every corporate national activity ...
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... Society of Engineers , was founded in 1851 with the fusion of over a hundred local trade societies . In the next fifteen years its member- ship of 12,000 more than doubled . With its many imitators it fought against piece - work ...
... Society of Engineers , was founded in 1851 with the fusion of over a hundred local trade societies . In the next fifteen years its member- ship of 12,000 more than doubled . With its many imitators it fought against piece - work ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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