Before the Industrial Revolution, everyone lived within short walking distance of their workplace. However, all of this has now changed and many people commute

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Lower-Middle-Class Nation provides an unparalleled interdisciplinary cultural history of the lower-middle-class worker in British life since 1850. Considering h

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Railway commuting is today a mundane and routine necessity, yet for the Victorians it was a novel experience. It opened up new possibilities of living at a remo