Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… plays’ such as Gay’s Beggar’s Opera . 7 Yet such print could also veer into impoliteness and divisiveness. A 1786 publication collating poems, songs and public notices relating to a Norwich election, included a public notice from one candidate’s agents that ‘several abusive songs and handbills’ that were ‘indecent and illiberal’ …
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