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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... Society , a Ladies ' Charity , a Lunatic Hospital , a Magdalene Society , an Institution for restoring Drowned Persons , a Strangers ' Friendly Society , a Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor , a ...
... Society , a Ladies ' Charity , a Lunatic Hospital , a Magdalene Society , an Institution for restoring Drowned Persons , a Strangers ' Friendly Society , a Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor , a ...
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Arthur Bryant. and one for the Conversion and Education of Negro Slaves : a Society for Protecting Trade against sharpers and swindlers , and a Society for giving Bibles to Soldiers and Sailors . Almost every corporate national activity ...
Arthur Bryant. and one for the Conversion and Education of Negro Slaves : a Society for Protecting Trade against sharpers and swindlers , and a Society for giving Bibles to Soldiers and Sailors . Almost every corporate national activity ...
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... Society . It began as a little group of youthful radicals -drawn mostly from the middle - class - who had repudiated ... society . The Fabian thesis was that before social revolution could be achieved , the educated leaders of society ...
... Society . It began as a little group of youthful radicals -drawn mostly from the middle - class - who had repudiated ... society . The Fabian thesis was that before social revolution could be achieved , the educated leaders of society ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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