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 62
... took service in the mer- chantmen or , more occasionally , in the king's ships of war . All round the coasts the shipbuilders were busy - at Newcastle , Sunder- land , Hull , Yarmouth , Aldeburgh , Harwich , Shoreham , Ports- mouth and ...
... took service in the mer- chantmen or , more occasionally , in the king's ships of war . All round the coasts the shipbuilders were busy - at Newcastle , Sunder- land , Hull , Yarmouth , Aldeburgh , Harwich , Shoreham , Ports- mouth and ...
Page 260
... took the law into their own hands . " The urge for social reform was spontaneous and its first fruits were voluntary and unofficial . It took the form of numberless remedial activities of a private or only semi - public 260 SET IN A ...
... took the law into their own hands . " The urge for social reform was spontaneous and its first fruits were voluntary and unofficial . It took the form of numberless remedial activities of a private or only semi - public 260 SET IN A ...
Page 263
... took one's " preference ” seat in the hot , suffocating , straw - strewn box . There one sat in cramped darkness for many hours of creaking , lumbering and jolting until the " many - coated , brandy - faced , blear - eyed guard let in a ...
... took one's " preference ” seat in the hot , suffocating , straw - strewn box . There one sat in cramped darkness for many hours of creaking , lumbering and jolting until the " many - coated , brandy - faced , blear - eyed guard let in a ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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