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 72
... army with their soldiers , landlords with their tenantry . For there could be no ruling such a people on any other terms . Fighting was their favourite pastime . In Moorfields , on holidays , the butchers , out of hereditary hatred ...
... army with their soldiers , landlords with their tenantry . For there could be no ruling such a people on any other terms . Fighting was their favourite pastime . In Moorfields , on holidays , the butchers , out of hereditary hatred ...
Page 125
... army many times larger than Wellington's and without which his could neither have been recruited nor maintained . Many were craftsmen of exquisite quality , like Miss Mitford's humble neigh- bour , " famed ten miles round and worthy all ...
... army many times larger than Wellington's and without which his could neither have been recruited nor maintained . Many were craftsmen of exquisite quality , like Miss Mitford's humble neigh- bour , " famed ten miles round and worthy all ...
Page 176
... Army , Navy , East and West Indies , and , he might have added , the Bar , the counting - house and factory . Almost everything the English rich did served the ends of style . It created both the external beauty whose survivals - houses ...
... Army , Navy , East and West Indies , and , he might have added , the Bar , the counting - house and factory . Almost everything the English rich did served the ends of style . It created both the external beauty whose survivals - houses ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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