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British history question: was there any major economic downturn and/or a rise of big populist movements in the UK between ~1850 and 1910? A Brexit-like period? Late Victorian + Edwardian era seems to have been a pretty serene era for Brits.
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I don't know about downturns, but I have heard of the idea that during this period industrialized intoxicants also became available, which mellowed some of the social disruption caused by the working class moving to cities and becoming factory workers:
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