Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… Places > Cities Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Codes Fashion Health Leisure Politeness Ritual Spa The transformation of Bath in the long eighteenth century occurred against a background of urban, socio-economic, and scientific … by Miles Ogborn’s contention in Spaces of Modernity that some eighteenth-century places were sites of identity formation. 29 25 . Haydn wrote in his notebook that ‘Bath was one of the most beautiful cities in Europe’. See Howard … sociability must be added the growing competition from seaside resorts, such as Brighton, 35 which accelerated the transformation of Bath into a residential city with private parties taking over from public ones, as shown by the case of the …
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