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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... trade . A foreign visitor in 1669 reported that there was not a rustic's cottage in Devon or Somerset that did not manufacture white lace ; in Suffolk every housewife plied her rock and distaff at the open cottage door and in ...
... trade . A foreign visitor in 1669 reported that there was not a rustic's cottage in Devon or Somerset that did not manufacture white lace ; in Suffolk every housewife plied her rock and distaff at the open cottage door and in ...
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... trade that Bristol , Barnstaple and Blackwell Hall exported to all the world . And farther west was Exeter of the serges , where thousands of artisans and all the country folk for twenty miles round were continuously employed in making ...
... trade that Bristol , Barnstaple and Blackwell Hall exported to all the world . And farther west was Exeter of the serges , where thousands of artisans and all the country folk for twenty miles round were continuously employed in making ...
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... Trade Unions had made their appearance . The quiet years of widening trade and employment helped their growth , giving them cohesion , tradition and financial reserves . Local consolidation was usually followed by amalgamation on a ...
... Trade Unions had made their appearance . The quiet years of widening trade and employment helped their growth , giving them cohesion , tradition and financial reserves . Local consolidation was usually followed by amalgamation on a ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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