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Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… can be understood as institutions of the public sphere going further down the social scale than gentlemen’s clubs or coffeehouses. They developed in London, and later in provincial cities, in the second half of the eighteenth century. By … (eds), Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts, 2010), p. 368. 5 . John Money, ‘Taverns, Coffee Houses and Clubs: Local Politics and Popular Articulacy in the Birmingham Area, in the Age of the American … Senate (1808) and in the numerous discussions of the eloquence (and not just substantive arguments) of leading MPs in coffeehouses and in the press. 11 People flocked to debating societies because they wanted to hear good oratory, and to …
Advertisement | Clubs | Debate | Eloquence | Gender | Middling sort | North America | Politics | Public sphere
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West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… and brothels of Covent Garden. The West End created centres of male association, particularly the gentleman's club, the coffee house and the casino whilst locations such as the King's Theatre on the Haymarket were places where female … for elite sociability co-existed with a vigorous popular culture, located in pubs, sites of curiosity, print shops, coffeehouses and brothels. The patent theatres in Drury Lane and Covent Garden were patrician but also plebeian spaces. … and low was based around the tavern, generating a sociability based around song and obscenity. Wealthier men also met in coffee houses. The best known included the Grecian off the Strand and Will's off Covent Garden . 6 The Grecian became a …
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… parties of gamesters, from exclusive gambling clubs or elite assemblies at private residences to popular city taverns or coffeehouses where various social classes mingled and indulged in fashionable games, thus fostering new forms of sociable … laws aimed, with little success, at suppressing the games of faro , basset or hazard (1739) or at preventing taverns and coffeehouses from serving as gambling dens (acts of 1750). 2 The Gaming Acts of 1739 and 1745, designed to curb the … Green & co, 1881), p. 88-89. Popular classes spent their meagre savings in the numerous gambling houses, taverns or coffee-houses of the capital, even after they were officially forbidden in 1750. The example was set by the upper ranks …
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Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… satirical representations of diverse forms of meeting and mixing on the streets, at fairs, and in parks, taverns and coffeehouses . He wrote to entertain, and satirical exaggeration was germane to the endeavour, but his humour … five years later he relocated to Moorfields, where he ran a tavern until 1728 when he moved again, this time to open a coffeehouse on an alley running between Holborn and the entrance to Gray’s Inn. It was here that he died in June 1731. … worshippers’ appeared as though the ‘world was turned topsy-turvy’. 5 In another issue, the Spy retires to a nearby coffeehouse bristling with fops chewing over matters political. These ‘beau-politicians’ were ‘a very gaudy crowd of …
Clubs | Humour | Impoliteness | Politics | Satire | Sex | Taverns
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… by wealthy individuals), its effects more often than not resonated in sociable interactions, such as letter writing, coffee house discussions or club meetings. In some cases, the shared social aspect of reading was so strong that it … members could discuss the books they had read. 13 The members of those different clubs usually met in public houses, coffeehous es or inns . 12 . The Public Advertiser of 5 September 1764 recorded some messy spouting: ‘One Day last …
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
Anglo-Irishness | Clubs | Duelling | Politics | Whigs
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