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Spas [ Health ]
… hydrophilic cultures, as Vaugh Scribner explains, though the phenomenon was not as widespread as it was in Britain. 2 In England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, more than 300 spas were recorded throughout the century – yet ‘spa’ was an … 2009), pp. 361–83. 11 . Elaine Chalus, ‘Elite Women, Social Politics, and the Political World of Late Eighteenth-Century England’, The Historical Journal (43, no. 3, September 2000). 12 . A. E. Hurley, ‘A Conversation of Their Own: … (vol. 4, n° 2, 2012), p. 155–69. Chiari, Sophie and Samuel Cuisinier-Delorme (eds.), Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800 . Early Modern Literature in History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Cottom, Daniel, ‘In the Bowels of the …
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Portable directories [ Print culture ]
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Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… in which normative ideals of urban and polite sociability were imagined. The first coffeehouses were established in England in the 1650s, possibly in London or perhaps in Oxford. Pasqua Rosee’s coffeehouse in in the parish of St Michael … Vertue of the Coffee Drink (c.1652), in which he claimed credit for being the first person to sell coffee publicly in England. By 1656, James Farr, had established the Rainbow Coffeehouse in competition with Rosee and soon thereafter many … than any other city in the British world, although by the end of the seventeenth century almost all cities in England, Scotland and Ireland had at least one coffeehouse. 1 . Markman Ellis, The Coffee-House: A Cultural History …
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Merchants [ Commerce ]
… a revolution in trade. Woollen cloth still dominated the export market, but there were dramatic developments in England’s re-export trade. New world commodities such as sugar and tobacco were exported into Britain and then … (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989); Margaret R. Hunt, The middling sort: Commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). 6 . Paul Langford, A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). 7 . John Chamberlayne, Magnae Britanniae Notitia: Or, the …
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Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… Collecting Commerce Exoticism Menageries North America During the long eighteenth century, a wave of exotic mania swept England so fully that the passion for the exotic led to various social interactions characterised by the refinement of … theatres, opera houses and so forth. Across Europe and in particular in such a polished and commercial nation as England, the purchase of exotic items appears to be a form of luxury defined by Adam Ferguson as ‘a manner of life which … of commodities, both convenient and ornamental, which are imported from exotic countries. As a prime instrument of England’s imperial agenda, the commerce in exotic foodstuffs played a significant role in paving the way for …
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