Search
Refine your search
Filter by keyword
On Horse races (1724) [ Practices ]
… do in the crowds of gentlemen at the weighing and starting posts, and at their coming in; or at their meetings at the coffee-houses and gaming-tables after the races were over, where there was little or nothing to be seen, but what was the … do in the crowds of gentlemen at the weighing and starting posts, and at their coming in; or at their meetings at the coffee-houses and gaming-tables after the races were over..." … Gambling … Gentleman … Text taken from Daniel Defoe, A …
Gambling | Gentleman
Anthology
Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… brought together by their passion for a particular sport – and sometimes by the gambling which this sport made possible. Coffeehouses and inns were popular places in the eighteenth century, and some sporting clubs started their lives in such … tradesmen families from taking part in the proceedings of the Club: John Deards, toyman and silversmith, Roger Williams, coffeeman and vintner, and John Cheny, coffeeman. Williams acquired a high profile as a consequence of Edward Coke having …
Colonies | Gambling | Gaming | Horseracing | Rules | Sports
Encyclopedia
The Connoisseur 15 (1754) [ Practices ]
… and that they are more concerned about the transactions of The two clubs at White's than the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament. Thus it happens that estates are now almost as frequently made over by whiff and hazard as by deeds … absurd to pretend to gather any such intelligence from White's ; as to send to Batson's for a lawyer, or to the Roll's Coffee-house for a man-midwife. The gentlemen who now frequent this place profess a kind of universal Scepticism; and as they …
Gambling | Conversation
Anthology
West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… Image Robert Wilkinson, ‘Proscenium of the English Opera House in the Strand, Late Lyceum. as it appeared on the Evening of the 21st March 1817, with Walker's Exhibition of the … and brothels of Covent Garden. The West End created centres of male association, particularly the gentleman's club, the coffee house and the casino whilst locations such as the King's Theatre on the Haymarket were places where female … for elite sociability co-existed with a vigorous popular culture, located in pubs, sites of curiosity, print shops, coffeehouses and brothels. The patent theatres in Drury Lane and Covent Garden were patrician but also plebeian spaces. …
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
Encyclopedia
Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… form of a bet on their own survival; the Royal Exchange, incorporated in 1720, started to offer life insurance. Lloyd’s coffee-house was a place where seafaring captains could share shipping news and negotiate private contracts to cover the risk of …
Conflict | Conviviality | Gambling | Gentleman
Encyclopedia
Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… took place in the period from March to October, when fashionable nobility and gentry society moved from London or town houses to enjoy county estate life and a nearby urban race meeting’s multiple leisure attractions. Towns were well aware … betting on major races and high-stakes matches grew over time, encouraged by the elite associability of London clubs , coffeehouses or betting houses like Tattersall’s Turf Tavern, and from late in the century, the emergence of professional …
Elite | Gambling | Horseracing | Sports | Women
Encyclopedia