Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… inside of the Grand Assembly Room in Blake Street’, York Museums Trust, YORAG: R1482, 1759. Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘A Master of the Ceremonies Introducing a Partner’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 59.533.500, 1795. Abstract In the long eighteenth century, … of leisure and sociability, assembly rooms were still exclusive spaces, open to polite society and regulated by the Master of Ceremonies or Lady Directress. Places > Sports & Leisure Practices > Associational culture Practices > Dance, …
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