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Character of a Coffee-House (1673) [ ]
… stories, and headless notions; the Rendezvous of idle Pamphlets, and persons more idly imployd to read them; a High Court of Justice, where every little Fellow in a Chamlet-Cloak takes upon him to transpose Affairs both in Church and … some mysterious Intrigue of State told [page 3] him last night by one that is Barber to the Taylor of a mighty great Courtiers man, relating this with no less formality than a young Preacher delivers his first Sermon, a sudden Hickup … their sense: Morea he believes to be the Country of the Moors, and Hungary a place where famine alwayes keeps her Court, nor is there any thing more certain, than that he made a whole Roomful of Fops, as wise as himself, spend above …
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Saint James's [ Cities ]
… and June, and created the ‘London season ‘ , a concept at the heart of London urban sociability. The renaissance of Court life in St James’s ‘shifted London’s population northwards and westwards, and smart developments appeared in St … destroyed by fire in 1698, William III asked Sir Christopher Wren to create new state rooms at St James’s. The Court became ‘a constellation of smaller residences’, splitting ‘ceremony and residence’ over several sites. This fragmentation not only changed ‘the practice of monarchy and court culture’ but solidified it (Greig 104, 107, 129). The Court developed into a site for both formal and informal …
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘Christie's Auction Room’, Courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Quarto 646 808 M58 v.1., 1808. Image Detail from the Catalogue of the Most remarkable Collection of Prints ever offered to the public, for Greenwood’s auction sale of 1786’, Courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 125 G971 786 Copy 1 Image George Cruikshank, Sales by Auction! - … exhibition and sales venues – the auction house. Image Legend Thomas Rowlandson, ‘Christie's Auction Room’, Courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Quarto 646 808 M58 v.1., 1808. This spatial shift isolated the …
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Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… retaliated and ‘raised a Posse of Profligates, fond of Tumult and Riot, who made such a Commotion in the House, that the Court hearing of it sent four of the Royal Messengers, and a strong Guard, to suppress all Disorders.’ 16 16 . William …
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