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 134
... green coats and gold - laced hats ; drovers in dark green slops with tin vessels jangling at their sides to catch the ewes ' " milk of the plains " ; farmers ' wives and milkmaids wearing combs and earrings , all spoke of the diversity ...
... green coats and gold - laced hats ; drovers in dark green slops with tin vessels jangling at their sides to catch the ewes ' " milk of the plains " ; farmers ' wives and milkmaids wearing combs and earrings , all spoke of the diversity ...
Page 227
... longer controlled the urban franchise . A new political power had come into existence - the voters of Britain's growing industrial cities . Not that the £ 10 householders enfranchised in 1832 constituted Green Pastures.
... longer controlled the urban franchise . A new political power had come into existence - the voters of Britain's growing industrial cities . Not that the £ 10 householders enfranchised in 1832 constituted Green Pastures.
Page 241
... green England sunning herself in her immemorial peace- “ the same level meadow with geese upon it , . . . the same pollard oaks , with now and then the butcher or the washerwomen trundling by in their carts . ” " I read of mornings the ...
... green England sunning herself in her immemorial peace- “ the same level meadow with geese upon it , . . . the same pollard oaks , with now and then the butcher or the washerwomen trundling by in their carts . ” " I read of mornings the ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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