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Salons [ Associational culture ]
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Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… transformation of Bath, Britain’s ancient watering-place, into a fashionable resort. The inventor of a new type of spa sociability, he contributed to the emergence of a British model of sociability in a decisive way. Through his conviviality, his influence on dress and manners, he participated in the … Spa Wit Richard Nash, who was born in Swansea in 1674, has gone down in history as Beau Nash – the inventor of spa sociability in Britain – and the ‘king of Bath ’, a remarkable contributor to the creation of a British model of …
Fashion | Gaming | Manners | Politeness | Refinement | Spa | Wit
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Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… into the symbol of the dissolute life of players whose addiction got the better of them, the very image of a corrupted sociability in which each participant is a prey in the eye of the rapacious gamester. Objects > Sports & Gaming … Keywords Aristocracy Domesticity Furniture Gambling Gaming Playing Playing games was a crucial aspect of daily sociability especially among the aristocracy and the middle classes in the long eighteenth century as we can see from the … interactions among the middle classes see Janet E. Mullin, ‘“We Had Carding”: Hospitable Card Play and Polite Domestic Sociability among the Middling Sort in Eighteenth-Century England’, Journal of Social History (vol. 43, n° 4, Summer …
Aristocracy | Domesticity | Furniture | Gambling | Gaming | Playing
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
Colonies | Gambling | Gaming | Horseracing | Rules | Sports
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