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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... lived a life apart.2 Scotland , too , though its wealth had increased immeasurably in the past half century , was a poor land compared with England . The country women still went about bare - footed , except on Sundays when they ...
... lived a life apart.2 Scotland , too , though its wealth had increased immeasurably in the past half century , was a poor land compared with England . The country women still went about bare - footed , except on Sundays when they ...
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... lived . In the first two decades of the century the population of Manchester increased from 94,000 to 160,000 , of Bolton from 29,000 to 50,000 and of Lancashire from 672,000 to 1,052,000 . The houses were put up by jerry - builders as ...
... lived . In the first two decades of the century the population of Manchester increased from 94,000 to 160,000 , of Bolton from 29,000 to 50,000 and of Lancashire from 672,000 to 1,052,000 . The houses were put up by jerry - builders as ...
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... lived . The new East End of London with its miles of mean , squalid streets covering an area greater in extent than any continental city , was something of a portent in the world . It was not for nothing that the scholar Marx was ...
... lived . The new East End of London with its miles of mean , squalid streets covering an area greater in extent than any continental city , was something of a portent in the world . It was not for nothing that the scholar Marx was ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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