Gangsters, Pimps & Prostitutes: London's West End
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Museum of Piccadilly
piccadilly was a genteel. it had an enormous supply of wealthy people, but also,. increasingly, people of the middling sort who were drawn to the areas. Many coffee houses, gentlemen's clubs. There was a huge popular thirst for both entertainment and knowledge. These were forerunners of mus seums. Sir hans sloane created the nucleus of the british museum with a collection of very important artifacts. But you had amateurs mustling in and creating their own museums. The most famous one is a chap called william bullock, who, in about again, late 17 hundred, he create something called the liverpool museum. For half a crown
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