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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland [ Clubs & Societies ]

… Abstract A circle of amateur antiquarians established the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1780 to lay the foundation of a museum displaying Scottish and world cultural … Honorary Fellows, and donors across Scotland, Britain, and Europe. The society played a central role in Edinburgh’s learned sociability and contributed to the influence of the ‘Athens of the North’ in the late eighteenth century and … Scotland within the larger political entity of Great Britain. Places > Clubs & Societies Keywords Antiquarians Edinburgh Learned society National Identity Scotland Eighteenth-century historical societies were the first institutions that …

Royal Society [ Institutions / Clubs & Societies ]

… Abstract Founded in 1660, the Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific institution. In the long eighteenth century, fellows dedicated themselves to … Bacon, ‘Artium Instaurator’ [founder of the arts], to the right. He envisaged a society ‘ not only by the Hands of learned and profiled Philosophers; but from the Shops of Mechanicks; from the Voyages of Merchants; [and] from the … of the Oxford Philosophical Society, confided how much of an honour it was to be ‘made of the same body with the most learned men of these times [and] with several of the nobility’ (Hunter, The Royal Society , 10). Although Margaret …

Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]

… Abstract In eighteenth-century Britain, scientific experiments were shown in locations as varied as coffeehouses, learned societies, and public lectures. They conveyed natural knowledge through shared aesthetic experiences; they also … consumption and shared experiences within the new associational forms of the public sphere. Practices > Politics & Society People > Science Keywords experiments science chemistry electricity mechanics public lecture association Meeting … role in the spaces of sociability that characterized British society in the eighteenth century. They were shown in learned societies, educational institutions, clubs, assembly rooms, coffeehouses, and taverns. Experiments occurred in …

Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]

… Jacobite rebellion. Concepts > Social interaction People > Association Keywords Clans Highlands Union Tartan Scottish society Identity Scottish Enlightenment Clubs and Societies Scotland Tradition In the eighteenth century, Scottish society was still mainly structured into clans, or extended families, subdivided into multiple branches. These were led … who came back to their native land shared what they learnt in what was then considered the best European civilised and learned societies. The clans of the Lowlands, or those living in large towns of the North such as Aberdeen, experienced …

Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]

… Abstract Society theatre was a highly prized activity during the eighteenth century, especially in France. In salons and estates, both grand and modest, people of the same society and social stratum engaged in amateur theatre. Private theatre performances were a practice in which worldliness … ‘They wish neither to play nor to take walks,’ Madame de Staal complained. ‘They hold no value in a society where their learned writings are of no relevance.’ 7   Conversely, also following a visit to Émilie and Voltaire, Léopold Desmarets, …