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By the latter 18th century, around half of all tobacco imported into Britain came through Glasgow, Scotland, making some Georgian families there very wealthy. But at what cost?
National identity, social class, inequality. David Olusoga shines a light on our fractured modern society through the lens of the past, exposing the fault lines dividing the UK.
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