HIST 1777 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cockfight, Business Matters, Making Money
19 Dec 2018
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England had recently gone through major change. 1666, what becomes an enormous fire breaks out of a bakery. Fire lasts 5 days and destroys 33% of london. Effects old medieval and old roman part of the city. Destroys over 13,000 houses, almost 90 churches, and leaves roughly 100,000 people homeless. Government and people see this opportunity to build a new city. City has a very deep social division (social hierarchy) City is known for its coffee houses, great for public spaces of the 18th century, best meeting place to meet friends, discuss business matters. Frequent of people with profession, coffee house for lawyers, doctors, philosophers. Since there are no address numbers, mail is delivered to local coffee shops. Coffee houses of london are exclusively male in the 1700"s, females are not allowed. No person of a lower social status doesn"t have to give up their seat for someone of a higher status.
