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 119
... thousand fire- sides . The stony fields round Bridport were blue with hemp and flax . Salisbury Plain and the Dorset uplands were cropped and fertilised by immense flocks of sheep : " it is the extensive downs in its vicinage ...
... thousand fire- sides . The stony fields round Bridport were blue with hemp and flax . Salisbury Plain and the Dorset uplands were cropped and fertilised by immense flocks of sheep : " it is the extensive downs in its vicinage ...
Page 120
... thousand five hundred acres produced annually three thousand quarters of wheat and six thousand of barley and the wool of seven thousand sheep , as well as eggs , milk and poultry , Cobbett reckoned that every labourer raised enough ...
... thousand five hundred acres produced annually three thousand quarters of wheat and six thousand of barley and the wool of seven thousand sheep , as well as eggs , milk and poultry , Cobbett reckoned that every labourer raised enough ...
Page 174
... thousand power - looms were in operation ; there- after their numbers doubled every other year , rising during the ' twenties to astronomical figures . The quality of the goods exported , and the integrity and dispatch with which ...
... thousand power - looms were in operation ; there- after their numbers doubled every other year , rising during the ' twenties to astronomical figures . The quality of the goods exported , and the integrity and dispatch with which ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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