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Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… and maintain reciprocal bonds between individuals, groups and even nations (playing a recognised role in diplomacy). 1 Presents played an important part in long-eighteenth century Britain in the prized, and often intertwined, virtues of … ‘no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State’. Gifting was not, of … p. 14 and p. 129. The social benefits of gifts were evident to contemporaries and care was taken about the choice of the present. Whilst simple meals and drink might be sufficient, rare, exotic or relatively expensive items of food, such as …
Charity | Empire | Friendship | Gift | Hospitality | Reciprocity | Religion
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Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]
… 1790s. It also shows the inn as a fairly sizeable complex. The image below by the caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson (1787) presents a coaching inn, obviously a rural inn, which is much smaller. Image Legend [A posting inn] by Rowlandson, … institution. 12 6 . See Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten, The History of Signboards, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (London: Hotten, 1867). Images of inns can also be found in Frederick W. Hackwood, Inns, Ales, and Drinking … (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). On early hotels, see p. 27-29. A large number of pubs and hotels in the present-day UK have nostalgically endowed themselves with the label ‘inn’, promising to provide visitors with the …
Drinking | Hospitality | Travel
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Freemasonry [ Associational culture / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
Aristocracy | Commerce | Freemasonry | Hospitality
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Hospitality (in the writings of James Cook and Watkin Tench) [ Social interaction / Mobility / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
Australia | Exploration | Gift | Hospitality | Pacific | Reciprocity | Ritual
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Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
Diaries | Family | Hospitality | Navy | Patronage
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