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Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]
… of national identity. 2 Some of these originated from the grounds surrounding places of diverse use (e.g. manor houses, taverns), while others have their roots in older but similar spatial projects, like the New Spring Gardens, … can be seen among other markers of modernity which accompanied the growth of the public sphere, including spaces like coffeehouses, salons or assembly rooms in England and France, and activities like art exhibitions. These commercial venues …
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Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… Greatrakes truly was a celebrity in Restoration England. That Greatrakes was ‘ [t]he great discourse now at the Coffee-Houses and every where’ in 1666, when he was in London to perform his prodigious cures, is testified by Joseph Glanvill, … and really there is some thing in it more then ordinary . 4 As Glanvill reports, during Greatrakes’s stay at Conway House, more than one thousand sufferers received his touch. Greatrakes arrived at Ragley Hall (in Warwickshire) in …
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