Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]
… that sociability broke down. Practices > Politics & Society Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Keywords Dining Elections Public sphere Tories Whigs Women Sociability was intrinsic to British politics in the eighteenth-century. For Members of … had to be maintained between elections. One way politically ambitious elite families did this was by holding weekly public days at their country houses during the summer. Public Days showed off political families as families . Husbands, wives and children, as well as available members of …
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