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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... shillings or more , their half - crown pit and upper galleries where , for a shilling , footmen and other humble , but by no means silent , spectators could obtain admittance . The King's Theatre was in Drury Lane , and the Duke of ...
... shillings or more , their half - crown pit and upper galleries where , for a shilling , footmen and other humble , but by no means silent , spectators could obtain admittance . The King's Theatre was in Drury Lane , and the Duke of ...
Page 85
... shilling freeholders gave them a real right to speak for England : they represented the substance of her dominant interest and industry . They were no placemen or carpet - baggers but independent gentlemen openly competing with their ...
... shilling freeholders gave them a real right to speak for England : they represented the substance of her dominant interest and industry . They were no placemen or carpet - baggers but independent gentlemen openly competing with their ...
Page 121
... shillings to three guineas an acre , in parts of Essex from ten to fifty shillings , in Berkshire and Wiltshire from fourteen to seventy shillings . At the summit of the boom in the last years of the war land could scarcely be bought at ...
... shillings to three guineas an acre , in parts of Essex from ten to fifty shillings , in Berkshire and Wiltshire from fourteen to seventy shillings . At the summit of the boom in the last years of the war land could scarcely be bought at ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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