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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... turned cheese , fed calves , geese , turkeys and fowls , and , seated on a stuffed sack , jogged weekly to market , bringing up their children in the process and starching flounces and shirt - frills for their richer neighbours . On ...
... turned cheese , fed calves , geese , turkeys and fowls , and , seated on a stuffed sack , jogged weekly to market , bringing up their children in the process and starching flounces and shirt - frills for their richer neighbours . On ...
Page 169
... turned it into a half a crown by begging a lift to Hull , fifty miles away , and re- turned with a bag of cockles for sale in his native town . From Peg Pimpleface , the costermonger's daughter , driving her donkey - cart round Poplar ...
... turned it into a half a crown by begging a lift to Hull , fifty miles away , and re- turned with a bag of cockles for sale in his native town . From Peg Pimpleface , the costermonger's daughter , driving her donkey - cart round Poplar ...
Page 260
... turned from his dreams of a remote chivalry to confront the inescapable problem of his age : " Slowly comes a hungry people , as a lion creeping nigher , Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly dying fire . " The thought of a ...
... turned from his dreams of a remote chivalry to confront the inescapable problem of his age : " Slowly comes a hungry people , as a lion creeping nigher , Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly dying fire . " The thought of a ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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