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Chapter 9. Sir Titus Salt, or: The Silicon Valley of Wool
Kris Siddiqi and Nigel Downer are here to learn about Sir Titus Salt who, for reasons unexplained, built a city in his own name! Was it a Christian utopia? A triumph of capitalism? A child-labour sweatshop? Can it be all...
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