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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Arthur Bryant. under the pseudonym of Robinson and carried a copy of Arthur Young's Farmer's Letters on all his ... carrying the country against the prevailing parliamentary majority in the election of 1784. The effect of corruption ...
Arthur Bryant. under the pseudonym of Robinson and carried a copy of Arthur Young's Farmer's Letters on all his ... carrying the country against the prevailing parliamentary majority in the election of 1784. The effect of corruption ...
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... carried trout and crayfish . “ One of those pretty , clean , unstenched and unconfined places , " Cobbett called Huntingdon , " that tend to lengthen life and make it happy . " At Winchester , when Keats stayed there in 1819 , nothing ...
... carried trout and crayfish . “ One of those pretty , clean , unstenched and unconfined places , " Cobbett called Huntingdon , " that tend to lengthen life and make it happy . " At Winchester , when Keats stayed there in 1819 , nothing ...
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... carry with him into a wider world . Such houses were still the headquarters of England's chief in- dustry ... carried the symbols of their trade — the carter his whip , the milkmaid her pail and the cook her ladle . The lads ...
... carry with him into a wider world . Such houses were still the headquarters of England's chief in- dustry ... carried the symbols of their trade — the carter his whip , the milkmaid her pail and the cook her ladle . The lads ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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