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West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… was, amongst other things, meant to equip young men with enough social skill and polish to make a convincing entry into fashionable society back home, and enable Grand Tourists and their families to continue consolidating and expanding on … and back in Britain amongst the Francophone elite. Without competency in this language, effective participation in fashionable eighteenth-century sociability was extremely difficult (Ansell 111-113). In addition to these lessons, Grand … could range from the most formal to the most provincial ducal, royal and imperial courts, as well as encompassing highly fashionable cosmopolitan sociability, rarefied sites of enlightened conversation. 3 When in Paris in 1780, for example, …
Academies | Cosmopolitanism | Court | Diplomacy | Education | Elite | Europe | Italy | Tourism | Politeness | Travel
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Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]
… began adopting many of the rituals and vocabulary of older hunting practices and was transformed into a fast-paced and fashionable pursuit. Practices > Games & Sports Keywords Animals Elite Hunting Sports Women Hunting had been the foremost … (London, 1782), p. 214. As with all high status hunting, fine clothes were an essential part of the experience, with the fashionable Leicestershire hunts leading the way in the respect, as in so many others. A travel writer commenting on the … but in the final decades of the century, foxhunters switched to red coats that are now their hallmark. For example, the fashionable Taporley Club in Cheshire, founded in 1762, switched from blue to red coats in 1769, at the same time as they …
Animals | Elite | Hunting | Sports | Women
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James, Duke of York and Albany (and court culture in Edinburgh) [ Aristocracy / Cities ]
… Duke of York and Albany, and his court in Edinburgh (1679-1682) changed some of its forms of sociability. Indeed, it refashioned a royal court in the Scottish capital at a time when the merchant class had come to be the elite. People > … of aristocratic royalism and learning he introduced was at the origin of a new interest in genealogy and history. 2 This fashion led to the creation of Scottish antiquarian societies . In this context, the prince motivated the foundation and … there were more theatre plays, dancing and games in the evening in the Palace or at private houses. Edinburgh became a fashionable place for entertainment. Even Dryden came north to perform a play. The Duke’s court also directly influenced …
Aristocracy | Catholicism | Court | Elite | Merchants | Patronage | Scotland
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Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… ‘race week’ of usually two to four days racing. Such meetings took place in the period from March to October, when fashionable nobility and gentry society moved from London or town houses to enjoy county estate life and a nearby urban … to some, allowed class, age, urban/rural, and gender social mixing on the course: agricultural labourers and men of fashion, noblemen and pickpockets, gentlemen of fortune and beggars, clergy and prostitutes, peeresses and kept …
Elite | Gambling | Horseracing | Sports | Women
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Phaeton [ Transport ]
… 6 . Thomas de Quincey, The English Mail-Coach and Other Writings (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1862), p. 287. In fashionable, urban centres owner-driven pleasure carriages were key parts of elite leisure. The route du roi or ‘Rotten …
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Portable directories [ Print culture ]
… and was recommended as a way to memorize the main kings, queens and famous politicians. 10 . Jennie Batchelor, ‘Fashion and Frugality: Eighteenth-Century Pocket Books for Women’, Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture (vol. 32, n° 1, …
Collecting | Elite | Merchants | Politeness | Rank
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