Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… Woods, created a new image of the city – Beau Nash , a few Bath doctors, Ralph Allen, in Prior Park – tried to promote a utopia, that of Bath as a prime example of a new, open society. 22 In Bath, different social classes were brought … between 1774 and 1781, an undertaking that was unique then and imitated later elsewhere. 32 Georgian Bath’s founders’ utopian attempt at keeping away conflict and thereby politics was bound to fail. In this respect, Bath was no exception …
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