“This Dreadful Vice”
Is it gambling or government addiction to gambling that’s the problem? June 2009
“One vast casino.” Such was the description of Regency England by the venerable historian G.M Trevelyan. Gaming, long popular, reached Gaming, long popular, reached a feverish peak in the early 19th century. It was ubiquitous: from the grandest country homes of the upper classes to the slums of the poorest of the poor. Wagers were the preferred way to settle many a…