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 63
... cloth was still king . The three great districts of its manufacture were East Anglia , the south - west and Yorkshire . From the first came the baizes and serges of Colchester and Sudbury , all the villages round which span wool for ...
... cloth was still king . The three great districts of its manufacture were East Anglia , the south - west and Yorkshire . From the first came the baizes and serges of Colchester and Sudbury , all the villages round which span wool for ...
Page 64
... cloths for Spain , France , Italy and the Levant . The cloth trade of the West Riding was as yet only concerned with the coarser manufactures . The Yorkshire kerseys of Leeds , Halifax , Huddersfield , Bradford and Wakefield supplied ...
... cloths for Spain , France , Italy and the Levant . The cloth trade of the West Riding was as yet only concerned with the coarser manufactures . The Yorkshire kerseys of Leeds , Halifax , Huddersfield , Bradford and Wakefield supplied ...
Page 185
... cloth ' and ' the narrow cloth ' ones , the rich and the poor , and the former seldom sought opportunities for inter - communication with the latter , but rather shunned them . " 1 Even the hunting - field was contaminated . “ These 1 ...
... cloth ' and ' the narrow cloth ' ones , the rich and the poor , and the former seldom sought opportunities for inter - communication with the latter , but rather shunned them . " 1 Even the hunting - field was contaminated . “ These 1 ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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