York 1700s: How an English City Worked Before Industry (AI Reconstruction)

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This is York. In the mid to late 1700s, at the height of its pre-industrial importance, York was England's northern capital, older than London's modern [music] dominance, more established than the industrial towns that would soon rise around it. The population remained stable across the century, around 11 to 16,000 people. This was not a city expan... Read More