London expanded and ports boomed, but many provincial towns lagged behind — Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to discuss the uneven progress of urban England in the eighteenth century.
Billingsgate Market
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
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