Rosemary Hill
speaker
490 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Rosemary Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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that there is a time when um people who basically live in the country on their own estates, but they all come up to town for a few months to see and be seen.
Yes.
Well the whole question of how do you control your government
Um, who governs the governor?
Is
the enduring question and by the end of this period, of course, one begins to see that the restoration
was a r was not a resolution.
It was a lid put on something.
But for the moment everything's going well.
Um
London is has ever expanding, like the middle class are always emerging, London is always expanding.
And we have the beginnings of the squares, the terraced houses, the grand not quite the very grand London houses which have existed since Elizabeth's time, if not before.
the sort of town palaces, but the beginnings of big London houses where grand people would come up for the season.
And also with that, the beginnings of a very metropolitan
street life if you like.
A sort of the world the the world of the flâneur begins to emerge.
You can
go to the coffee house, um that's mostly for men.
I think it's entirely for men, and let apart from the women who worked in them.
But women are going to the theatre, mm women are beginning to appear on stage.
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