Edinburgh clubs and societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… a Smart City, Edinburgh’s Civic Development, 1660-1750 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), p. 197. Gendered social places? They were meeting places for gentlemen. Women remained absent from these intellectual and social spheres up until the 1770s. During the Enlightenment era, some societies, such as the Select Society (1754), the … The role played by clubs and societies in the formation of British and European social, intellectual and political networks In the context of the Auld Alliance and of the institutional Union of 1707, the influence of France was decisive …
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