Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… to pay one another the civility of the hat’. 12 Elections, it was said, filled the land ‘with drunkenness, opprobrious language, impious oaths and execrations, with violence and party rage, and often with bloodshed’. 13 Some thought … https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/electoral-sociability.html Further Reading Barker, Hannah and Vincent, David (eds.), Language, Print and Electoral Politics, 1790-1832: Newcastle-under-Lyme Broadsides (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2001). … saw as impolite and damaging to the political and social culture. … Barker, Hannah and Vincent, David (eds.), Language, Print and Electoral Politics, 1790-1832: Newcastle-under-Lyme Broadsides (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2001). …
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