Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… public and private sociability, attracting racehorse owners and gamblers; men and women; the country and towns-folk; and elite, middling and proletariat groups. The race ground offered a liminal space encouraging social mixing and status … assemblies, theatres, balls, eating and drinking, to cock fighting or pugilism. Practices > Games & Sports Keywords Elite Gambling Horseracing Sports Women Horse racing had a prominent place amongst the new forms of human sociability and … of the structure of politics, at national, regional and local levels. 12 Races offered an opportunity for the local elites to network politically, assessing electoral support through covert Whig and Tory political operations, or around …
Elite | Gambling | Horseracing | Sports | Women
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