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One of the world’s great divides is between people who can afford to go on holiday and those who can’t, says Simon Kuper in the FT. For most, since history began, it was normal to be born, live and die without ever venturing far from home. There were exceptions. Victorian mill workers went to the beach every Wakes Week. But from the 1840s, the coming of the railways began democratising long distance travel. Suddenly ordinary Britons could take “excursions” to see the battlefield at Waterloo.
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