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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… appropriate participants and activities. The term ‘assembly’ was defined by Edward Philips in 1720 as ‘a Concourse, or Meeting of People, a definition which emerged when early assembly rooms were being constructed across Britain in the … expanded upon Philips’s definition, outlining the audience and purpose of the assembly as ‘a stated and general meeting of the polite persons of both sexes; for the sake of conversation, gallantry, news, and play’. 5 The assembly … or Lady Directress was responsible for upholding the rules of the assembly rooms which were usually determined in meetings of the subscribers, as they determined the rules by which they were to be governed. 12 7 . Steven Gores, …
Assemblies | Community | Dance | Entertainement | Leisure | Music | Politeness | Women
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
Dance | Diplomacy | Entertainement | Grand Tour | Italy | Travel
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Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… more polite world, and its precise requirements of masculine conduct, were hardly set in stone. Fanny Burney records meeting a Mr. Thomas Barlow in 1775 at the home of some of her relations where her grandmother was taking tea. When she … little) ‘[…] my father introduced Hetty to him as an old acquaintance, and he cordially kissed her!’ 6 At a subsequent meeting, when Dr Johnson seemed to be ignoring her at Mrs Thrale’s – she asked him ‘why’: ‘ ‘I was not sure of you,’ …
Conduct | Conventions | Dance | Gender | Kissing | Propriety | Touch
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The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
Assemblies | Advertisement | Dance | North America
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