Street sociability [ Cities ]
… Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘Miseries of London’, Wikimedia Commons, 1807. Abstract In a world of pedestrians streets and roads formed the most demotic of social spaces. In eighteenth-century Britain, it was on the street that gentlemen and gentlewomen rubbed shoulders with hawkers, paupers and a varied cast of social inferiors. The streets demanded new rules of behaviour, new ‘rules of the road’. By reference to the practice of everyday life, the … explores the street as a uniquely complex site of social exchange and sociability. Places > Cities Keywords Crime Streets Rules Women In eighteenth-century British towns, almost everyone was a pedestrian. It was on the street that …
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