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From Siege to Emerging Leisure Town: Chester’s Recovery from the Civil War, 1646-1745
Beech, Rachel
Beech, Rachel
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2019-09
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By the end of 1647, Chester had been reduced to a damaged and diseased shell,
suffering from the twin effects of civil war siege and plague. Reports stated that most
of the capable working population had fled leaving only the poor and dying.1
However, only thirty years later Chester began to see marked improvements, with
fashionable architecture, growing marketing and port trade, and a wealthy population
of urban gentry. How the city was able to recover from its low state towards a
comfortable and prosperous new identity – the ‘leisure town’ – will be explored in this
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Beech, R. (2019). From Siege to Emerging Leisure Town: Chester’s Recovery from the Civil War, 1646-1745 (Master's dissertation). University of Chester, UK.
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University of Chester
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