Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… between 1660 and 1770, sixty-five spa and market towns funded and built assembly rooms for their communities, based on newspapers and assembly room records (151, 336-49). The germination of assembly rooms maps onto the ferment of urban … 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 rooms were spaces for balls, concerts, card parties, and other entertainments in which …
Assemblies | Community | Dance | Entertainement | Leisure | Music | Politeness | Women
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