Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… & Societies Practices > Associational culture Keywords Advertisement Clubs Debate Eloquence Gender Middling sort North America Politics Public sphere Debating societies were commercial ventures that provided the middling and lower orders … ‘Taverns, Coffee Houses and Clubs: Local Politics and Popular Articulacy in the Birmingham Area, in the Age of the American Revolution’, Historical Journal (14, 1971), p.15-47, p. 17 and 37. 6 . Davis Dunbar McElroy, The Literary Clubs … them. Debates closely followed the burning issues of the day, from John Wilkes’s fight with the government to the American War, comparisons between Pitt and Fox (a classic), foreign affairs, the Regency Crisis and the French …
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