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 120
... 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 food to support ...
... 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 food to support ...
Page 182
... hundred persons had been invited to a house which is not capable of holding more than six hundred . ” 1 There were breakfast parties in pastoral mansions among the Middlesex meadows and Surrey woods , water parties in carpeted boats ...
... hundred persons had been invited to a house which is not capable of holding more than six hundred . ” 1 There were breakfast parties in pastoral mansions among the Middlesex meadows and Surrey woods , water parties in carpeted boats ...
Page 209
... hundred enclosure Bills were passed , four hundred more than in the previous forty years . In no other way could the supply of home- grown food - and none other was available - have kept pace with the population . Growing numbers of ...
... hundred enclosure Bills were passed , four hundred more than in the previous forty years . In no other way could the supply of home- grown food - and none other was available - have kept pace with the population . Growing numbers of ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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