Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]
… taverns provided locations for a large variety of activities beyond eating and drinking, including meetings of clubs and societies, political meetings, balls and assemblies, celebratory dinners, and concert performances. They also functioned … to accommodate a large variety of events and meetings, many of which (including balls, musical concerts and debating societies) were designed to attract women. But at their heart was an emerging culture of masculine conviviality, which … the words to songs sung at convivial meetings, and suggestions of toasts, as well as the proceedings of tavern-based societies, such as those of Richard Price’s Revolution Society decried in Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France …
Celebration | Conviviality | Dining | French Revolution | Prostitution | Radicalism
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