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West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
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Beau Brummell (George Bryan) [ Fashion ]
… elite clubs, balls, and dinners. Not only did he introduce a new clothing style for men, based on clear lines, a sparing use of colours other than black and white, and little ornament, but he also created eagerly absorbed rules about … colours, lace, ornaments, jewellery, powder, and other elements of eighteenth-century male fashion, or he used them very sparingly. Clarity and radical simplicity were the main ingredients of his own elegant style, which led the fashion for … elite clubs, balls, and dinners. Not only did he introduce a new clothing style for men, based on clear lines, a sparing use of colours other than black and white, and little ornament, but he also created eagerly absorbed rules about …
Celebrity | Clubs | Dandy | Fashion | Wit
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The Kit-Cats (1708) [ Practices ]
… Who reeking in thy own, and Roman Sweat, Dost ancient Conquests o'er the French repeat: Do thou, great Bocai smooth thy spacious Brow, And one kind Smile on my Attempt bestow: For thou, whole fertile Genius does abound With noble Projects, …
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Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
Clubs | Crime | Debate | Democracy | French Revolution | Gender | Law | Politics | Sovereignty | State | Violence
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… playing a vital role in familiarizing the growing audience with such new printed media like novels, biographies or newspapers and periodicals. See Rachel Scarborough King in Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print … practices Although the growing popularity of the novel caused a real outpour of books into both private and public spaces, reading should not be viewed as an activity connected solely to literature or associated simply with texts intended to stir up the imagination (e.g. fiction or poetry). 2 In fact, people read various texts – from newspapers (political, cultural, social) to practical messages (street names, road- or shop signs) – and for various …
Clubs | Family | Fiction | Streets
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]
… transnational sociable practices. Indeed, young Catholic Highlanders were sent to Scots colleges in Holland, France, Spain and Italy to be trained as priests. Those who came back to their native land shared what they learnt in what was …
Clans | Clubs | Enlightenment | Highlands | Scotland | Tradition
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Samuel Johnson [ Art and Literature ]
Celebrity | Conversation | Depression | Clubs | Fame | Gender
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Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… ruckus by irreverently lighting up a pipe and puffing smoke about the room (Hyland 154-6). The capital’s less salubrious spaces of public sociability are also given due attention. In one issue, the Spy visits a Billingsgate alehouse. Once …
Clubs | Humour | Impoliteness | Politics | Satire | Sex | Taverns
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