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Product details
- ISBN 9780140138191
- Weight: 316g
- Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 1990
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.
Roy Porter was, until his retirement, Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. He died in 2002.
