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Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]
… forms of leisure, they can also be linked to the rising significance of culturally conditioned notions such as taste, fashion or visibility. Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Art Conversation Entertainement Fashion Gardens Music Nature Taste Pleasure gardens were a particular type of eighteenth-century sociable spaces. Usually … to bowling, fireworks and even animal fights – but also played an active role in activities and trends like gossip and fashion, reflecting varied cultural phenomena such as taste, companionship or being on display. Providing amusement for …
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Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
… a record of a particular occasion). Mrs Weichsel is singing from a box, and the foreground is populated by members of fashionable society: between Mrs Weichsel’s box and the tree in the middle stands the famous Duchess of Devonshire, a … (centre right); the other characters seem to belong to less elevated social spheres. Vauxhall garden passed out of fashion in the first half of the nineteenth century, and eventually closed in 1859. Little of it is left in the area, …
Entertainement | Exhibitions | Gothic | Music | Nature | Pleasure gardens
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John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
… made a determined effort to resituate the poet in the real world, reading him not only as a ‘poet’s poet’ – the fervent fashioner of extraordinarily fine phrases – but also as a man of his times, engaged in the pressing political issues of …
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