Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… 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, considered as a ‘patrician malady.’ 13 At the turn of the century, Bath’s most famous …
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