… Image Lawrence Harrisson, ‘A Midnight Modern Conversation’, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1923.261, 1748. Image Midnight Modern Conversation (1733), by William Hogarth Image ‘Tin-glazed earthenware bowl’, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1923.241, 1780-1790. Image William Hogarth, ‘A Midnight Modern Conversation’, Yale Center for British Art, B1981.25.351, c.1732. Abstract Punch bowls were made from a range of …
… filtered into the common room via the daily papers now purchased through common room subscriptions, to provide food for conversation and subjects for wagers. If many bets dealt with the situation in France and the outcome of the war with … considers male gossip as a prominent practice in gentlemen’s clubs and confirms that the betting book inevitably fuelled conversation and debate as men discussed the latest news and rumours of the day. Betting was a shared sociable …
… culture of masculine conviviality, which had begun to move away from Addison and Steele’s ideal of informed and witty conversation towards a form of sociability that emphasized shared experience through more ritualized forms of …