Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… being associational spaces of leisure and sociability, assembly rooms were still exclusive spaces, open to polite society and regulated by the Master of Ceremonies or Lady Directress. Places > Sports & Leisure Practices > Associational … and the wider British empire. 1 In their most basic form, assemblies promoted the mixing of polite strata in Georgian society, from the nobility to the middling sort. 1 . Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon … from the middling sort up through the gentry and nobility residing in the area. Those families who formed part of polite society were deemed to be socially acceptable by the Master of Ceremonies or Lady Directress who governed the space. …
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