Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… for public debate among the lower and middling sorts. Topics could be frivolous, but when societies debated politics, religion, and the economy they were felt to voice threateningly radical opinions. When the reaction against the French … or Debates of the Robin Hood Society’ in London Chronicle, 8 August 1769. Another area of criticism was the way religion was discussed in debating societies ( Thale, ‘Deists, Papists and Methodists’). In the Robin Hood Society in … for public debate among the lower and middling sorts. Topics could be frivolous, but when societies debated politics, religion, and the economy they were felt to voice threateningly radical opinions. When the reaction against the French …
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