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Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]
… functioned as sociable spaces for locals, travellers, tradesmen, and politicians. In the hierarchy of eighteenth-century drinking-places, inns were superior to pubs and alehouses. They sometimes functioned as settings for novels, facilitating … advent of the railway network in the nineteenth century, they began to decline. Places > Residences & Lodgings Keywords Drinking Hospitality Travel In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a period which John Chartres has called … local politics. The inn, much older than the comparatively young coffee-house , was one of several types of eating and drinking venue. Chaucer's medieval Tabard, offering food and accommodation for pilgrims 2 , is the British literary …
Drinking | Hospitality | Travel
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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… imagined. Coffeehouses were centres of sociability because they brought people together for the ostensible purpose of drinking coffee, but they also encouraged discussion and often debate over matters of common interest. News gathering, news reading and news sharing were as integral to coffeehouse sociability as coffee drinking. Rather than seeing the coffeehouse as a wholly unique and liberal institution, more recent studies have … which it emerged out of, and was integrated into, the social structures of early modernity. Rather than replacing older drinking spaces such as the alehouse or the tavern, the rise of the coffeehouse is now best understood as the emergence …
Coffeehouses | Drinking | Public sphere | Politics
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Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… for a ritual encounter and structured sociability. Objects > Food & Drink Keywords Alcohol Celebration Conviviality Drinking Masculinity Ritual Tableware Punch was a drink made from a blend of alcohol spirit, fruit, sugar, spices and … Present, (no. 214, 2012), pp. 174-180. The punch bowl itself was an object that straddled distinctions in the market of drinking objects. In the early eighteenth century the bowls were made from silver, pewter, glass and a range of ceramics, … fine earthenware, punch was served in a bowl which blended the associations of rowdy, refined, associational and polite drinking cultures. 2 That bowls were produced in many different sizes also made them accessible to groups small and …
Alcohol | Celebration | Conviviality | Drinking | Masculinity | Ritual | Tableware
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The Juice of the Grape (1724) [ Practices ]
… An hypochondriacal Gentleman, who fancied himself infected with the Venereal Disease, cured by drinking Wine. A third, and the last remarkable Instance I design to produce of an hypocondriacal Patient, recover’d by … a Salivation or any other Physick: The Method I speak of will infallibly throw off the Malignity from the Blood..." … Drinking … Medicine … Melancholy … Taken from Peter Shaw, The Juice of the Grape: Or, Wine Preferable to Water. A …
Drinking | Medicine | Melancholy
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The Connoisseur 82 (1755) [ Practices ]
… so that a man cannot entirely refrain from his glass, if he keeps any company at all. But let it be remembered, that in drinking, as well as in talking, we ought [p. 84] always to " keep a watch over the doors of " our lips." A LOWNGER is a … of the bottle to enliven it: so that a man cannot entirely refrain from his glass, if he keeps any company at all. " … Drinking … Women … Rake … Gaming … Gentleman … George Colman and Bonnell Thornton, The Connoisseur. By Mr. Town, critic …
Drinking | Women | Rake | Gaming | Gentleman
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Judith Defour Case, 1734 [ Practices ]
… a Shilling, and the Petticoat and Stockings for a Groat. We parted the Money, and join'd for a Quartern of Gin." … Law … Drinking … Death … Judith Defour. Killing; murder. 27th February 1734. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey …
Law | Drinking | Death
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A Poem upon Tea (1712) [ Practices ]
… soon themselves destroy, Wine fires the Fancy to a dangerous height, With smoaky Flam, and with a cloudy Light." … Tea … Drinking … Beauty … Charm … Peter Motteux, A Poem upon Tea . London: Printed for …
Tea | Drinking | Beauty | Charm
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Misfortunes of the enchanted snuff-box (1710) [ Objects ]
… of it; the Matter indeed was but plain Oak, (but pretended to be part of the Royal Oak) neatly inlaid with Silver..." … Drinking … Satire … Exoticism … Religion … F.B. [Brokesby, Francis] , Les tours d'une tabatiere: or, the travels and …
Drinking | Satire | Exoticism | Religion
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Toasting-glasses of the Kit-Cat Club, 1703 [ Practices ]
… toast; The adorers offerings prove who’s most divine, They sacrificed in water, we in wine." … Toasting … Drinking … Beauty … Charm … Taken from Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), "Verses, Written for the …
Toasting | Drinking | Beauty | Charm
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