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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... passed into marriage through the ceremonies and junketings of an English wedding . On the bridal day in a well - to - do home the company put on coloured scarves , love - knots and ribbons , and fine gloves and garters . After the sack ...
... passed into marriage through the ceremonies and junketings of an English wedding . On the bridal day in a well - to - do home the company put on coloured scarves , love - knots and ribbons , and fine gloves and garters . After the sack ...
Page 251
... passed for streets were unpaved and often followed the line of streams serving a conduit for excrement . The appearance of such towns was dark and forbidding . Many years had now passed since the first factories appeared among the ...
... passed for streets were unpaved and often followed the line of streams serving a conduit for excrement . The appearance of such towns was dark and forbidding . Many years had now passed since the first factories appeared among the ...
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... passed through many phases of society in their long , declining history , were so vile that they left a stain wherever they rested : they stank . They herded together in bug - ridden lodging houses and rotting tenements : they slept ...
... passed through many phases of society in their long , declining history , were so vile that they left a stain wherever they rested : they stank . They herded together in bug - ridden lodging houses and rotting tenements : they slept ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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