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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… of persons that were present of all qualities’. 5 Coffeehouses enabled the meeting of commerce and a post-courtly elite, as the merchants’ efforts to disseminate these artefacts were met by the amateurs’ discursive strategies to … on his rostrum orchestrated the biddings with his hammer. He had become a key agent in the growing pleasure the urban elite experienced in accumulating objects. The lots he attributed both fuelled polite conversation and provided the décor … in Cornhill coffeehouses, to accommodate merchants leaving the Royal Exchange at closing time. The audience, from elite collectors to the middling sort, sought a fashionable experience and while many stock-of-trade and dealer-to-dealer …
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… at Drury Lane The theatre was frequented by all social ranks, but its calendar reflected the movements of London’s elite. Drury Lane’s theatrical season began in late September or October as its aristocratic and genteel patrons returned … equality in the workplace’; 23 similarly, though the theatre’s calendar and records of audience response skew towards elite society, financial records offer a salutary reminder that Drury Lane’s audiences and artisans were socially …
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… Davy’s lectures in the first decade of the nineteenth century were extraordinarily popular with the metropolitan elite, and his audiences included a significant proportion of women won over by his charm and passionate eloquence. He …
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