Taken from Juvenile Magazine of 1889
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Paved with gold?

Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart ask whether the eighteenth century English town really offered a higher quality of life. Fortunes could be made, but there was also conflict and disillusionment.

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