Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… (in the Covent Garden Journal , 28 January 1752), and a spate of pamphlets satirized the Robin Hood Society. Graphic satire also mocked debating societies, which had become one of the sights of London and a key site where both the plebs’ …
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