Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… celebrated the pleasures enjoyed by a man of a ‘polite imagination’ and asserted that ‘the pleasures of the fancy [were] more conducive to health than those of the understanding.’ 3 In their periodical, read by both men and women in places … Gordon Riots of 1785 (Cossic, Bath, 160), and the new trend towards mass mobilization, as demonstrated by the actions of Hannah More and William Wilberforce. Hannah More, for her part, used her Bath connections for philanthropic and political ends – in particular in her fight …
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