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 70
... court of Quarter Sessions from a list of agricultural holders submitted by the vestries . It was his business to see that all whose property adjoined the public high- ways kept clear their gutters and drains , trimmed their hedges and ...
... court of Quarter Sessions from a list of agricultural holders submitted by the vestries . It was his business to see that all whose property adjoined the public high- ways kept clear their gutters and drains , trimmed their hedges and ...
Page 215
... Court . For the first time in its history it was venturing away from the river ; houses , skirting the new Regent's Park , strayed into the fields and farms of Primrose Hill where children still gathered the flowers which gave it its ...
... Court . For the first time in its history it was venturing away from the river ; houses , skirting the new Regent's Park , strayed into the fields and farms of Primrose Hill where children still gathered the flowers which gave it its ...
Page 223
... courts and alleys of the older London that besieged them . The great gasometers rose like fortresses above the drab ... court : a nasty , filthy , dangerous country Bastille in the heart of London and a great offence to sensitive and ...
... courts and alleys of the older London that besieged them . The great gasometers rose like fortresses above the drab ... court : a nasty , filthy , dangerous country Bastille in the heart of London and a great offence to sensitive and ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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