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Meeting places: the scientific congress and the host town in the south-west of England, 1836-1877

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Urban History, Volume: 39, Issue: 2, Pages: 246 - 262

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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/S0963926812000041

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This article presents a case study of ‘parliaments of science’ and their impact on urbanization in the south-west of England in the second half of the nineteenth century. These were the week-long annual meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and other national association...

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ISSN: 0963-9268
Published: Cambridge University Press 2012
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