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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]

… Abstract Coffeehouses were key centres of sociability in eighteenth-century Britain. They played an important role both as real … for social interaction and as virtual places in which normative ideals of urban and polite sociability were imagined. Coffeehouses were centres of sociability because they brought people together for the ostensible purpose of drinking coffee, but they also encouraged discussion and often debate over matters of common interest. News gathering, news …

Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]

… Abstract In eighteenth-century Britain, scientific experiments were shown in locations as varied as coffeehouses, learned societies, and public lectures. They conveyed natural knowledge through shared aesthetic … new forms of sociability. At the beginning of the era, William Whiston and others showed demonstrations of mechanics in coffeehouses. Later, Benjamin Martin commercialized experiments with static electricity, and Joseph Priestley and his … People > Science Keywords experiments science chemistry electricity mechanics public lecture association Meeting Society Coffeehouses Public sphere Conversation Scientific experiments played a significant role in the spaces of sociability …

Covent Garden [ Institutions ]

… by its remaking as a pleasure district, including many sites of sociability, such as theatres, taverns, brothels and coffeehouses. These were populated by a cross-section of London life, including actors, traders, writers and prostitutes. … many satirical artists. Places > Institutions Keywords Theatre Prostitution Popular Politics London Westminster Coffee-house Tavern Market Covent Garden is a square in the centre of London, still famous for its market and surrounding … most obviously fuelled by the eponymous theatre and the nearby Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, but was also served by various coffee shops, taverns, bagnios and brothels, as well as the space of the Piazza, which was a site of political meetings …

Saint James's [ Cities ]

… with its main architectural elements: St James’s Palace, St James’s Park, St James’s Square, St James’s Street and its coffeehouses and clubs. Places > Cities Keywords London West End Coffeehouses Clubs Gambling Beau monde The political revolution that established William and Mary on the throne in 1689 … Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers (London: Edward Moxon, 1856), p. 10-11. St James’s Street featured many coffeehouses and chocolate-houses, which were the places of rendez-vous of people of fashion, and where one could meet, …

Auction houses [ Trade ]

… and becoming a hub of connoisseurial debate. Places > Trade Keywords Art market commerce collecting catalogue Coffeehouse Exhibitions Royal Exchange Covent Garden Pall Mall Auction sales were imported from seventeenth-century … of the port’s Prize-Office and the Common Crier’s office and started taking place in key centres of sociability – the coffeehouses. 4  In England and Ireland, this was a transgression of sorts, as public sales of goods were often … expanded, these hard-to-price objects became a non-negligible part of after decease transfer of capital. Auctions at coffeehouses such as Tom’s in London, or Dick's in Dublin offered a unique mode of urban sociability and exchange for …

Periodicals [ Print culture ]

… form, their numerous themes and articles, they act as sources for discussion and exchanges in different sociable places (coffee-houses, clubs, Salons). Because periodicals host very different voices and opinions, and tackle different sorts of … as a virtual sociable space. Objects > Print culture Keywords Periodical Magazine News Volume Addison Steele Newspaper Coffeehouse Club Women Issue A ‘periodical’ or periodical publication is a text published at regular intervals. The … form, their numerous themes and articles, they act as sources for discussion and exchanges in different sociable places (coffee-houses, clubs, Salons). Because periodicals host very different voices and opinions, and tackle different sorts of …