Taking Money from Strangers

Hannah Barker suggests the decisions that retailers made about both banknotes and the individuals who presented them for payment illustrate some of the ways that town dwellers sought to navigate the rising anonymity of urban society in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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Image courtesy of interviewee. March 4, 2022

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