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Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… brought together by their passion for a particular sport – and sometimes by the gambling which this sport made possible. Coffeehouses and inns were popular places in the eighteenth century, and some sporting clubs started their lives in such … brought together by their passion for a particular sport – and sometimes by the gambling which this sport made possible. Coffeehouses and inns were popular places in the eighteenth century, and some sporting clubs started their lives in such …
Colonies | Gambling | Gaming | Horseracing | Rules | Sports
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Humphry Clinker (1771) (2) [ Places / Practices ]
… country lodgings, and go three times a week to public diversions. Every clerk, apprentice, and even waiter of tavern or coffeehouse, maintains a gelding by himself, or in partnership, and assumes the air and apparel of a petit maitre—The … and divert the imagination of the vulgar—Here a wooden lion, there a stone statue; in one place, a range of things like coffeehouse boxes, covered a-top; in another, a parcel of ale-house benches; in a third, a puppet-show representation of …
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Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]
Books | Censorship | Newspapers | Periodicals | Public sphere
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The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason (1794) [ Concepts ]
Law | Confinement | Newspapers | Crime | Debate
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Street sociability [ Cities ]
… of the everyday; and where beggars cried for attention. The street was the club that admitted everyone. While the coffeehouse and the salon have exercised modern historians as the all-important sites of sociability, eighteenth-century … perspectives. In the work of Jürgen Habermas, the streets are largely absent. They sit beyond the walls of the coffeehouses and salons, where the newspapers were read and discussed by groups of self-selecting and socially uniform … and Genteel Behaviour ... (1740), p. 1-5. The streets did not provide a locale for the easy social interaction of the coffeehouse or drawing room. The streets did not allow for a sociability of sameness – though the royal parks and gay …
Crime | Streets | Rules | Women
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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