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Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… style and eye for graphic detail. For the history of sociability, his works offer vivid contemporary representations of meeting and mixing among both the high-life and low. He was also known to enjoy a tipple himself with fellow satirists in … of sociability, Ward’s published writings offer rich material, with 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 … There are also clubs that elaborated upon real forms of interaction, such as ‘the Mollies Club’, which satirised meeting places frequented by those seeking male homosexual encounters. The majority of clubs, however, are fictitious and …
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The Sporting Magazine (1793) [ Practices ]
… Sporting intelligence At the meeting of the Harlow Archery Society, on Harlow Bush Common, last week, the prize of the golden bugle-horn was won by …
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Hell-Fire Club (1752) [ Practices ]
… About the same Time a Set of infernal Spirits appeared in London, and held a nocturnal Meeting under the Name of THE HELL-FIRE CLUB. One Prank of this Club is confirmed by so many Writers, that it would be …
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Saint James's [ Cities ]
… revolution that established William and Mary on the throne in 1689 had new constitutional terms which meant yearly meetings of Parliament. This brought the titled to Lo ndon between November and June, and created the ‘London season ‘ , … and informal sociability, St James’s Palace being the site for drawing rooms and balls. George I hosted twice-weekly meetings at St James’s, noted for the spectacular attire of the nobility who attended there (Greig 106, 107, 109, 113, … east side of the street stood the famous Thatched House Tavern, which welcomed, at different periods of its history, the meetings of the Brothers’ Club (created in 1711), the Society of Dilettanti (founded in 1734) and Johnson’s Club (created …
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Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
… Palais-Royal, the seedbed of pre-revolutionary politics with its cafés, bookstores, gambling dens and countless meeting rooms – spaces ideal for socialising to coordinate political action. Although the Declaration of the Rights of … revolutionary policies towards associations were initially restrictive. Clubs required municipal authorisation to hold meetings, and their activities were limited to the drafting of addresses and petitions. Deputations before authorities … to the Société des amis de la Constitution in January 1790. The club became known as the ‘Jacobin Club’ because it held meetings in an old Jacobin convent near the National Assembly meeting hall in Paris. Early membership was comprised of …
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Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… of Satanism swiftly sprung up regarding Parsons’ club: they supposedly kept an empty chair for the Devil at their meetings, had ‘a familiar in the shape of a cat’ (66), and ‘assembled to drink hot scaltheen, a mixture of whiskey and … of Medmenham, is uncertain, but it must have happened during or shortly after Dashwood’s Divan Club, which held its last meeting on May 25 th 1746. 12 . Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third Vol. 1, 2018 [1845], p. … removed from West Wycombe and formerly belonging to a Cistercian Order. The abbey became famous for hosting the later meetings of the Brotherhood, and for the inscription above its doors which reads ‘ Fay ce que voudras’ (‘do what thou …
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… 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 easily dominated over the individual … practice of reading, as suggested by the 1788 satirical poem ‘The Country Book Club’ authored by Charles Shillito: Thus, meeting to dispute, to fight, to plead, To smoke, to drink—do anything but read— The club—with stagg’ring steps, yet …
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West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… coffee houses. The best known included the Grecian off the Strand and Will's off Covent Garden . 6 The Grecian became a meeting place for opposition Whigs in the early eighteenth century. 7 Artists would meet up at Old Slaughter's in St …
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Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… from governmental repression and loyalist harassment. 10 The Royal Proclamation against seditious writings and meetings in May 1792 was the signal for repression against booksellers, tavern-keepers and debating societies suspected …
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