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… House of Lords, politics was face-to-face and personal, operating through social networks, personal connexions and extended family interests. Much political networking, solicitation, manoeuvring, and negotiation took place in mixed-sex … social situations for political ends) were vitally important constants in eighteenth-century British political culture. Westminster politics extended well beyond Westminster, as MPs and members of the Lords regularly spilled out of the overcrowded debating chambers of the Houses of …
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