Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… of assemblies for the year as well as refreshments. The presence of a subscription fee demarcates assembly rooms as elite, exclusive spaces open to those who could afford to pay. The subscribers were typically drawn from the middling … who were typically found in the North of England and Scotland, these women were elected from amongst the civic elite. 10 In Edinburgh in the 1760s and 1770s, the Honourable Miss Nicky Murray, daughter of the 6 th Viscount of … culture in the long eighteenth century. The 1830s also saw declining use of assembly rooms and the gradual waning of elite influence. The assembly rooms in Beverley declined in usage and became less central to social life in the town by …
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