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 116
... thought , was more devoted to pictures than anyone he had ever met . The unspoilt countryside of Britain , its songs and folklore created a natural instinct for poetry ; more than one of the rustic giants whose mechanical and scientific ...
... thought , was more devoted to pictures than anyone he had ever met . The unspoilt countryside of Britain , its songs and folklore created a natural instinct for poetry ; more than one of the rustic giants whose mechanical and scientific ...
Page 167
... thought of anything but labour . The hours of the north country factories ranged from sixty - five to seventy - five a week.1 The operatives who combed and sheared the cloth of the West Riding worked from four in the morning till eight ...
... thought of anything but labour . The hours of the north country factories ranged from sixty - five to seventy - five a week.1 The operatives who combed and sheared the cloth of the West Riding worked from four in the morning till eight ...
Page 264
... thought them hideous , and farm- ers complained of frightened horses and cattle ; keepers of posting- houses , stage coachmen and canal proprietors also naturally hated the puffing billies . " I thought likewise , " wrote Jasper ...
... thought them hideous , and farm- ers complained of frightened horses and cattle ; keepers of posting- houses , stage coachmen and canal proprietors also naturally hated the puffing billies . " I thought likewise , " wrote Jasper ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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