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… This brought the titled to Lo ndon between November and June, and created the ‘London season ‘ , a concept at the heart of London urban sociability. The renaissance of Court life in St James’s ‘shifted London’s population northwards and westwards, and smart developments appeared in St James’s’. 1 St James’s was the site where the ‘seasonal elite’ concentrated in a very … created the conditions for the development and flourishing of the area. The list of elite people, as well as ‘artisans’ and service and goods, who occupied houses or apartments there is testimony to the centrality of St James’s to …
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