4. Story of England: Industrial Revolution
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Rise and Fall of the Upper Classes
The more clothes you had, again, it's a symbol of wealth. If you were an upper class lady, you would go through minimum three outfits a day every day. Harriet Wilson famously started to write her memoirs and in her memoirs, she didn't only name names, but she was savage. She said the Duke of Wellington was boring. It was more like a rat catcher than I hear her. The kings still matter and the queens are sort of not only obviously their political powers waning across this period, but what about their social and cultural power? Are they still the trend setters?
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