Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… by Tonson in Barn Elms, it was the first club to furnish a clubroom specifically for its own use. The Kit-Cat was a space of exclusive membership, designed to build social capital, yet of open conversation on the basis of a pretended … saw themselves as promoting Britain’s cultural reputation on the international stage in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). 7 They also saw themselves as educators of the ‘middling sort’, funding several …
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