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 46
... Stone Gallery , the hub of the Stuart government of Britain . On its walls hung the pictures which Charles I had collected and his enemies dispersed , and which his son had partly reassembled . Here they made a kind of national picture ...
... Stone Gallery , the hub of the Stuart government of Britain . On its walls hung the pictures which Charles I had collected and his enemies dispersed , and which his son had partly reassembled . Here they made a kind of national picture ...
Page 137
... stone over the door , or the old hall at Middleton built of plaster and framework , with its massive beams and black oak carvings and walls hung with match- locks , swords and trophies of the chase . Many of these older houses had ...
... stone over the door , or the old hall at Middleton built of plaster and framework , with its massive beams and black oak carvings and walls hung with match- locks , swords and trophies of the chase . Many of these older houses had ...
Page 165
... stone belfries , almost as many , it seemed , as the masts in the river . Above them the cliffs of Wren's vast cathedral carried the eye upwards to a remote golden cross and ball . The dome on which these symbols rode belonged to a ...
... stone belfries , almost as many , it seemed , as the masts in the river . Above them the cliffs of Wren's vast cathedral carried the eye upwards to a remote golden cross and ball . The dome on which these symbols rode belonged to a ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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