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 65
... Industrial Revolution . The geographical distribution of industry is best indicated by the annual excise returns ; that for 1665 shows that while London , Middlesex and Surrey were together farmed for £ 140,000 , the yield for Yorkshire ...
... Industrial Revolution . The geographical distribution of industry is best indicated by the annual excise returns ; that for 1665 shows that while London , Middlesex and Surrey were together farmed for £ 140,000 , the yield for Yorkshire ...
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... industrial towns for labour kept up wages , its effects had been comparatively little felt . And everywhere the ... industrial town , or the mentality of children who grew up among these gloomy phenomena knowing no other . There was some ...
... industrial towns for labour kept up wages , its effects had been comparatively little felt . And everywhere the ... industrial town , or the mentality of children who grew up among these gloomy phenomena knowing no other . There was some ...
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... industry on which the health , social well- being and safety of the bulk of its people depended — agriculture . But to ... industrial change . Both , confronted by the refusal of the authorities to relieve their sufferings , felt a sense ...
... industry on which the health , social well- being and safety of the bulk of its people depended — agriculture . But to ... industrial change . Both , confronted by the refusal of the authorities to relieve their sufferings , felt a sense ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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