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London hit 90% literacy around 1750, and that's including the guys who shovelled horse-shit for a living, I'm pretty sure patrons of Lloyd's were very close to
by iguy 6y ago
London hit 90% literacy around 1750, and that's including the guys who shovelled horse-shit for a living, I'm pretty sure patrons of Lloyd's were very close to 100% literate from the start.
But how much people had read, and how easily they could find new things, were of course vastly different. They were still busy inventing newspapers, and wikipedia was some way off.
- lordnacho 6y agoTIL > London hit 90% literacy around 1750 Still though, if you look at today, there's plenty of people who can read, but don't. You'll find lots of modern people who don't know anything about what happened in history, what the political themes are, and so on.
- lordnacho 6y agohttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history/article/spread-of-literacy-in-nineteenthcentury-england/8F696710081BF83DC7E1136CC79647E3 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-...
- iguy 6y agoNote that 90% of people in England weren't in London, circa 1800.