Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… estimates that between 1660 and 1740, charitable trusts had doubled and possibly even grown three-fold. 4 Some of this philanthropy was more individual. The mid-eighteenth-century diarist and shopkeeper, Thomas Turner, gave small amounts of …
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