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Saint James's [ Cities ]
… To account for its full spatial as well as social dimensions and to understand what role it played in the emergence and fashioning of London sociability, it is essential to consider St James’s as intrinsically associated with its main … Park, St James’s Square, St James’s Street and its coffeehouses and clubs. Places > Cities Keywords Clubs Coffeehouses Fashion Gambling Nature The political revolution that established William and Mary on the throne in 1689 had new … enclosed by Henry VIII as royal hunting ground. Following the Restoration, Charles II ‘poured large sums of money into fashioning St James’s Park as a reinstatement of natural order.’ It became one of London’s most fashionable promenades, …
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West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… for the elite in the West End) shopkeepers in St James's Street, the Strand and Old Bond Street began to offer the best fashions from Paris and to inform women what was in and what was out. The top shops in the Georgian West End became … an end. Sociability at the opera declined to be replaced by a focus on appreciating the music. 4 4 . Jennifer Hall-Witt, Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780-1880 (Durham, NH: University Press of New England, 2007), p. … where one could receive visitors, was important but so was the development of manners, deportment and a form of self-fashioning based upon appreciation of art, literature and music. Like the opera, balls and dinner parties underpinned an …
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
Anglo-Irishness | Clubs | Duelling | Politics | Whigs
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
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Letter to The Chronicle (1762) [ Concepts ]
… agreeable. What can the people understand by this Temple erected to ye Diltettanti, but that it is a place where foreign fashions, foreign follies, foreign fopperies, foreign arts, & foreign artists are to be encouraged? Can such a compliment …
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Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
Clubs | Humour | Impoliteness | Politics | Satire | Sex | Taverns
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Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]
… Canada or the United States of America as well as in the novels by Sir Walter Scott, whose stories about them were fashionable among the high society of the time. 6 Their image changed as well when James Macpherson, a poet, claimed … was. Their critical testimonies were read in British sociable circles and participated in making tours of the Highlands fashionable. The Highland clubs and societies that emerged in the eighteenth century participated in the rehabilitation … asked all the clans to be presented to the king in their own tartan. The ceremony was such a success that it became a fashion for all rich Scottish families to create their own tartan. The ‘ union between the Highlands and the Lowlands was …
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Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… debates to those bent on self-improvement and/or proud of their civic capacity; they also offered lighter subjects on fashion or gossip for those seeking entertainment. An additional attraction was that the debating societies offered …
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