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 149
... arm in arm with the bash - nosed champions of the " Fancy " ; an engraving of Tom Cribb was part of the normal furniture of an undergraduate's rooms . A contest between two " milling coves " was the most popular spectacle in the country ...
... arm in arm with the bash - nosed champions of the " Fancy " ; an engraving of Tom Cribb was part of the normal furniture of an undergraduate's rooms . A contest between two " milling coves " was the most popular spectacle in the country ...
Page 182
... arms of tight - panta- looned cavaliers , in the sensational new German dance , the waltz . There were parades on summer evenings and Sundays in Rotten Row and Kensington Gardens where , through clouds of dust , hun- dreds of wonderful ...
... arms of tight - panta- looned cavaliers , in the sensational new German dance , the waltz . There were parades on summer evenings and Sundays in Rotten Row and Kensington Gardens where , through clouds of dust , hun- dreds of wonderful ...
Page 255
... Arms were called for by excited Celtic orators , and forests of oak saplings were brandished at mass meetings by grimy sons of toil . Stories were whispered about the country of how the master workmen of Birmingham - the savage ...
... Arms were called for by excited Celtic orators , and forests of oak saplings were brandished at mass meetings by grimy sons of toil . Stories were whispered about the country of how the master workmen of Birmingham - the savage ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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