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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 34
Page 133
... eyes , curling brown hair and a wonderful play of countenance . " To those who visited England after the fall of Napoleon there seemed , indeed , about her people an almost insulting opulence . The verminous tatters of the continental ...
... eyes , curling brown hair and a wonderful play of countenance . " To those who visited England after the fall of Napoleon there seemed , indeed , about her people an almost insulting opulence . The verminous tatters of the continental ...
Page 228
... eyes or pushed comfortably to the back of their heads while papers and blue books were strewn idly on the floor before them . When , as often happened , the course of debate flowed languidly , many would stretch themselves out on the ...
... eyes or pushed comfortably to the back of their heads while papers and blue books were strewn idly on the floor before them . When , as often happened , the course of debate flowed languidly , many would stretch themselves out on the ...
Page 311
... eyes of the wage slaves , teach them to combine and use their latent strength with discipline and loyalty to obtain their share of the kingdom . The prejudices against them - the malice and victimisation of employers , the biased use of ...
... eyes of the wage slaves , teach them to combine and use their latent strength with discipline and loyalty to obtain their share of the kingdom . The prejudices against them - the malice and victimisation of employers , the biased use of ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
15 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ancient Bamford boys Britain British Buckinghamshire capital capitalist century Charles Lamb Church cloth coaches Cobbett common Corn Laws cottage cotton Court Cranbourn Chase crowded Crown doors Duke England English peasant factory Farington farm farmers father fields foreign gardens gentlemen gentry Government green Gronow half horses houses Howitt industrial Jane Austen John Byng labour Lady Shelley laissez-faire Lancashire land lanes Lavengro Leigh Hunt liberty lived London Lord Manchester manufacturing Mary Mitford ment merchant miles million Mitford neighbours never night parish Park parliament Pepys Pierce Egan poor population reform revolution rich river road Romany Rye rough round royal rustic Samuel Bamford seemed shire Simond social society Sorbière squire streets Sunday thousand town trade Trade Union trees village wages wealth weavers West women workers wrote young