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Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings and Emotions ]

… Abstract Sociability was intrinsic to British politics in the eighteenth-century. For Members of Parliament and members of the House of Lords, politics was face-to-face and personal, operating through social networks, personal connexions and extended family … what could happen when issues or election campaigns became so divisive that sociability broke down. Practices > Politics & Society Concepts > Feelings and Emotions Keywords Women political hostess dinner Public Days race meet …

Jacques Necker (and public opinion) [ Politics / Publicity ]

… to show how the revolution ultimately shifted the terms of public opinion as a form of political sociability in French politics. People > Politics Concepts > Publicity Keywords Public opinion Third Estate French Revolution Public sphere revolutionary politics Political sociability Jacques Necker, a protestant banker from the city-state of Geneva, was best known for his …

Political Clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]

… constitutional legitimacy to do so, however, the clubs were accused of undermining and usurping state power. Practices > Politics & Society Places > Clubs & Societies Keywords Politics French Revolution Gender Democracy Violence law Sovereignty State Jacobin Club Faction Political clubs … awareness groups. While the activities of French revolutionary political clubs are known to historians, their impact on politics is debated. Their initial ideal of offering a space for civil debate and consensus-building gave way, by 1792, …

Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]

… (including theatre criticism, poetry and ‘gallantry’, mixed with moral guidance) in a periodical essay format, with some politics and news, lightened with humour. He was nevertheless also a highly partisan polemicist and had a relatively circumscribed view of who constituted the ‘people’. People > Art and Literature People > Politics Keywords Periodical Print culture Politeness Army Morality Politics Slavery Women Theatre Wit This article will not repeat data easily accessible elsewhere about Steele’s career as …

Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… the taste for public debate among the lower and middling sorts. Topics could be frivolous, but when societies debated politics, religion, and the economy they were felt to voice threateningly radical opinions. When the reaction against the … part of the population, including women. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Keywords Debate Politics Middle class Plebeian Public sphere Oratory Eloquence Debating societies were commercial ventures that provided … Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts, 2010), p. 368. 5 . John Money, ‘Taverns, Coffee Houses and Clubs: Local Politics and Popular Articulacy in the Birmingham Area, in the Age of the American Revolution’, Historical Journal (14, …

Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]

… . People > Aristocracy People > Art and Literature Keywords Bluestockings Conversation Letters Parties Drums London Politics Born in 1719, Frances Evelyn Glanville was a distant relative of diarist John Evelyn, and – via her mother, also … navy acquaintances for dinners and assemblies, and thus provided opportunities for Boscawen to exert a form of social politics in the manner described by Elaine Chalus: 1 . Admiral’s Wife: Being the Life and Letters of The Hon. Mrs. Edward … their homes on designated days or evenings during the parliamentary season. 3 3 . Elaine Chalus, ‘Elite Women, Social Politics, and the Political World of Late Eighteenth-Century England’, The Historical Journal (n° 43, vol. 3, 2000), p. …