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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… satirical representations of diverse forms of meeting and mixing on the streets, at fairs, and in parks, taverns and coffeehouses . He wrote to entertain, and satirical exaggeration was germane to the endeavour, but his humour nevertheless … five years later he relocated to Moorfields, where he ran a tavern until 1728 when he moved again, this time to open a coffeehouse on an alley running between Holborn and the entrance to Gray’s Inn. It was here that he died in June 1731. …
Clubs | Humour | Impoliteness | Politics | Satire | Sex | Taverns
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Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… can be understood as institutions of the public sphere going further down the social scale than gentlemen’s clubs or coffeehouses. They developed in London, and later in provincial cities, in the second half of the eighteenth century. By the … (eds), Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts, 2010), p. 368. 5 . John Money, ‘Taverns, Coffee Houses and Clubs: Local Politics and Popular Articulacy in the Birmingham Area, in the Age of the American …
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West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… or Pizarro (1799). He moved from the stage to the political arena and was a Whig MP for thirty-two years in the British House of Commons for Stafford (1780–1806), Westminster (1806–1807), and Ilchester (1807–1812). He was a member of Samuel … an outstanding orator and a politician and remained a Whig member of Parliament for thirty-two years in the British House of Commons. 6 In September 1780, he had become a young MP for Stafford, a prosperous manufacturing borough. In the … of the fire rushing from Parliament, he is said to have watched his Drury Lane Theatre burn to the ground at the Piazza Coffee-House , drinking and wittingly remarking ‘A man may surely be able to take a glass of wine by his own fireside’ …
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