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The Victorians, Part 1 of 2

Short History Of...

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Urban Crisis and the New Industrial Middle Class

Rapid urbanisation creates squalid back-to-back housing and public-health crises, while industrial wealth produces a powerful middle class that begins to challenge aristocratic privilege and drive political pressure.

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