the story of the peopleof britain, Book 2CUP Archive, 1929 - 200 pages |
Contents
THE REVOLUTION AND THE GOVERNMENT | 1 |
THE FLIGHT OF JAMES II FROM LONDON | 2 |
COUNTRY LIFE 200 YEARS | 7 |
A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY COACH | 8 |
PLOUGHING WITH OXEN IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 14 |
TOWN LIFE 200 YEARS | 32 |
LONDON BEGGARS Tempest Cries of London | 35 |
THE FIRST GREAT FRENCH WAR AND | 60 |
NEW AMSTERDAM AFTERWARDS NEW YORK Ogilby | 152 |
THE DEATH OF CHATHAM After the painting by Copley | 160 |
THE ENGLISH IN INDIA | 163 |
THE GREAT MOGUL ON HIS THRONE Ogilby Asia 1673 | 168 |
LORD CLIVE | 175 |
GREAT BRITAIN TOWARDS THE END OF | 180 |
HYDE PARK CORNER Contemporary print | 188 |
JOSIAH WEDGWOODS FIRST TEAPOT Life of Wedgwood 1865 | 197 |
THE JACOBITES AND THE REBELLIONS OF 1715 | 80 |
THE DAYS OF WALPOLE AND PITT | 94 |
CHANGES AT HOME | 117 |
THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH National Portrait Gallery | 139 |
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION | 207 |
THE TAKING OF THE BASTILLE 14th July 1789 | 215 |
THE NAPOLEONIC WAR | 227 |
Common terms and phrases
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