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Nearly Sane

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'London's Triumph'
« 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
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Harrowby Hall

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Re: 'London's Triumph'
« Reply #1 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?
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