Sex in the City - Students Expose the Underbelly of Victorian Bath

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Prostitution, infanticide and the cover-up of a terrible typhoid epidemic are just some of the less familiar aspects of Bath's heritage that are revealed in a new book called Bath Exposed! Essays on the Social History of Bath 1775-1945.

Modern tourists are now mostly presented with a deeply cleansed picture of Bath's past. But behind the veneer of rattling tea cups in the Pump Room and the rustling of fans in the Assembly Rooms that we think of a being typical 18th century Bath, lay a much darker side to the city.

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Sex in the City - Students Expose the Underbelly of Victorian Bath

Dead babies were found in outside lavatories after servant girls were raped by the rich toffs of Bath, young girls looked ...

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