Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… ‘View of the Husting in Covent Garden’, The British Museum, 1851,0901.1222, 1806. Abstract Covent Garden lay at the heart of the eighteenth-century metropolis, beside the major route between the Court and aristocratic Westminster to the … Garden was also the place where the rowdy hustings for the Westminster elections occurred, inspiring many satirical artists. Places > Institutions Keywords Coffeehouses Commerce Market Prostitution Theatre Covent Garden is a square in … to the major thoroughfare to the commercial City of London, enhanced its importance as a site of sociability at the heart of the eighteenth-century metropolis. 1 Covent Garden’s social life was most obviously fuelled by the eponymous …
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