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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland [ Clubs & Societies ]

… eighteenth century and beyond. Unlike similar European institutions, it was not state-funded and promoted the cultural identity of 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 collected traces of … Scotland was a major contribution to Edinburgh’s learned sociability in the eighteenth century. It paved the way for the National Museum of Antiquities which merged with the Royal Scottish Museum into National Museums Scotland (1985). 1   1 . …

Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]

… a new approach to spa life but along different lines. This comparative entry seeks to outline the contours of a transnational spa sociability in four major aspects of ‘openness’ i.e., the interplay of sociability and health, the paradox … new communities. Places > Health Places > Nature Keywords Health Open society Master of Ceremonies Spa doctor regulation Identity celebrity Spa Spa sociability is very often considered as a paradigm of an ‘open society.’ Openness for Neil … people from different German principalities as from other countries could mingle in the absence of a central court or national political capital, which also fostered artistic and literary creativity. *** 1 . N. McKendrick, J. Brewer and …

Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… > Art and Literature People > Travel Keywords Women Salon Letters travelogue French Revolution Girondins napoleonic era National specificities sociable spaces Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) showed a sustained appetence for literary and … mentioned Williams in three letters. See Lettres de Madame Roland, Claude Perroud (ed.), vol. 2, (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1902), p. 194, 467, 469. 6 . Cited by M. Ray Adams, ‘Helen Maria Williams and the French Revolution’, in Earl … The utterance situation is marked by decentring and deterritorialisation. It constantly combines distance and proximity, identity and otherness and external and internal viewpoints, and it exploits the position of cultural intermediary …

Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]

… 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 … in England, that they were all Catholics. The Catholic community had connections with the continent that fostered transnational sociable practices. Indeed, young Catholic Highlanders were sent to Scots colleges in Holland, France, Spain and … their own tartan. The ‘ union between the Highlands and the Lowlands was perhaps an even greater influence on Scottish national life and character than the union of Scotland and England’. 10  The Highland Societies promoted the …

Boxing [ Games & Sports ]

… art in the context of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Boxing became increasingly associated to a conservative and nationalist perception of Englishness as conservatives and radicals perceived the potential of the pastime to educate the … art in the context of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Boxing became increasingly associated to a conservative and nationalist perception of Englishness as conservatives and radicals perceived the potential of the pastime to educate the … Sporting Cultures (1650-1850) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018) Whale, John, ‘Daniel Mendoza’s Contests of Identity: Masculinity, Ethnicity and Nation in Georgian Prize-fighting’, Romanticism (vol. 14, n° 3, 2008), p. 259-271. … …