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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 … and often debate over matters of common interest. News gathering, news reading and news sharing were as integral to coffeehouse sociability as coffee drinking. Rather than seeing the coffeehouse as a wholly unique and liberal …

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. … Charles Macklin even establishing his own Piazza Coffee House in 1754. Famed literary regulars in the Covent Garden coffeehouses ranged from Joseph Addison to Samuel Johnson. The midnight revels in Tom’s Coffee House were depicted in a satirical print of around 1735, showing revelry, drinking and bare-breasted women. The coffeehouses were preceded by bagnios or bath houses, beginning with the Hummums in 1683, and the innuendo that …

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 ]

… 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 … which can be seen as a virtual sociable space. … Periodical … Magazine … News … Volume … Addison … Steele … Newspaper … Coffeehouse … Club … Women … Issue … Periodicals …