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 135
... villages- " our own land of fair and handsome faces , well - fed inhabitants , richly cultivated and enclosed fields , " as Harry Smith , returning from the wars , called it . Village greens with shouting children and fat geese , white ...
... villages- " our own land of fair and handsome faces , well - fed inhabitants , richly cultivated and enclosed fields , " as Harry Smith , returning from the wars , called it . Village greens with shouting children and fat geese , white ...
Page 159
... village alehouses as well as manor houses ; when the Manchester weavers , true to their country past and oblivious of their proletarian future , went out hunting on the Cheshire hills , Sam Stott , the huntsman , used to treat them to a ...
... village alehouses as well as manor houses ; when the Manchester weavers , true to their country past and oblivious of their proletarian future , went out hunting on the Cheshire hills , Sam Stott , the huntsman , used to treat them to a ...
Page 238
... village craftsman - a numerous class - he con- stituted the social and moral backbone of the parish . In 1831 one countryman in three possessed some stake in the land . One in seven worked his own land without hiring labour . Such a man ...
... village craftsman - a numerous class - he con- stituted the social and moral backbone of the parish . In 1831 one countryman in three possessed some stake in the land . One in seven worked his own land without hiring labour . Such a man ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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