As a New Zealander of English and Welsh descent, my cultural heritage is basically European rather than of the Pacific.
I thus found that the Prestonian Lecture to the United Grand Lodge of England for 1976, by WBro A C F Jackson, PGSwdB, entitled ‘Preston’s England’, added greatly to my then rather thin knowledge of the period.
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1998 - THE WORLD OF THE ANTIENTS AND MODERNS - LONDON IN THE 1700S - Guy Palliser.