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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on May 26, 2018, 09:56:47 AM

Title: 'London's Triumph'
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 26, 2018, 09:56:47 AM

Interesting podcast on the growth of London in the century leading up to Shakespeare and how it is referred to in literature around the time.


https://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/stephen-alford-londons-triumph

Title: Re: 'London's Triumph'
Post by: Harrowby Hall on May 26, 2018, 12:52:56 PM

Very interesting.

So it was the arrival of immigrants - including refugees from the religious wars in France - that turned England from being a third tier nation on the fringe of Europe into the leading European state. I don't suppose that one of them was a French Huguenot name Farage?