Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… Prime Minister, or the Stamp Act crisis (1765-66). 12 This newly formed community of invalids could temporarily ignore class divisions, at least the boundary separating the aristocracy and the gentry from the emerging middle class, or ‘middling orders.’ Some diseases could be seen as so many badges of honour, most particularly gout, … logical consequence of both the new buildings and the spa way of life. The ideal of civitas prevailed in Bath until the middle of the eighteenth century: those who, together with the Woods, created a new image of the city – Beau Nash , a few …
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