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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
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Spas [ Health ]
… classes and assembly rooms had spaces dedicated to the occupation – restricted to gaming only after the 1739 and 1745 laws banning professionally-handled gambling. Theatres also thrived on the taste for display, performance and music …
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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… , the coffee-houses , put a new burden on the newcomers, that of conforming to a specific ritual with its own set of laws. They were thus forced to swap a previous code of behaviour – chivalric for the members of the aristocracy, popular …
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Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Howard R. Kemble, They Took the Waters. The Forgotten Mineral Spring Resorts of New Jersey and nearby Pennsylvania and Delaware (Trenton, NJ: The Past Times Press, 1961); Carol Sheils Roark, ‘Historic Yellow Springs: The Restoration of an … Grand Spas of Continental Europe. 14 Today, Ballston Spa, is a post-industrial town, the Sans Souci having operated as a law school and a boarding house in the mid-nineteenth century before being torn down in 1887. Most of the grand …
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