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… to fashionable haunts. 1 . Mascha Hansen, 'Introduction', in Sebastian Domsch and Mascha Hansen (eds.), British Sociability in the European Enlightenment: Cultural Practices and Personal Encounters (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), p. 1–12. Urban sociability to settle the price of cultural goods Witnessing a Custom house sale of ships ‘by inch of candle’ 2 in 1662 … left the confines of the port’s Prize-Office and the Common Crier’s office and started taking place in key centres of sociability – the coffeehouses. 4 In England and Ireland, this was a transgression of sorts, as public sales of goods …
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