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The Spectator, No. 49 (26 April 1711) [ Places ]
… the Persons from whom they obtain daily Favours, but still practise a skilful Attention to whatever is uttered by those with whom they converse. We are very Curious to observe the Behaviour of Great Men and their Clients; but the same … is near one of the Inns of Court, and Beaver has the Audience and Admiration of his Neighbours from Six 'till within a Quarter of Eight, at which time he is interrupted by the Students of the House; some of whom are ready dress'd for Westminster , at Eight in a Morning, with Faces as busie as if they were retained in every Cause there; and others come in their Night-Gowns to saunter away …
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… 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 London, Samuel Pepys recorded the rumpus caused by … (Cambridge, Mass: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991), p. 32. The auction house provided these communities with sociable space, by also maintaining and redistributing their cultural identities from sale to sale. The British antiquary and herald John Ive lived happily retired in Great Yarmouth and maintained his links with the Society of Antiquaries and the London Royal Society mainly by correspondence, but the sale of a fellow …
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… Whiston and others showed demonstrations of mechanics in coffeehouses. Later, Benjamin Martin commercialized experiments with static electricity, and Joseph Priestley and his associates introduced new gases in public lectures. Experiments were both commodities supplying a kind of cultural consumption and shared experiences within the new associational forms of the public sphere. Practices > Politics & Society People > Science Keywords … after the upheavals of the civil wars and interregnum. At its meetings, experiments were performed for an assembly of witnesses who could freely assent to the truth of what they saw. An audience of male aristocrats and gentlemen certified …
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
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Ranelagh Advertisements (May 1769) [ Places / Practices ]
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Theatres and Cafés in revolutionary Paris (1792) [ Practices ]
… have lot nothing behind them but public spirit and public virtue; and that all splendour, taste, and gaiety have fled with them to Coblentz. There are at present no less than twenty theatres at Paris, which are well filled every night ; … graces of whose performance it is impossible not to feel, but no less impossible to describe. "Gestures, that marks with force, and feeling fraught, A scene in silence, and a will in thought ; All perishable, like th' electric fire, But … fragrance charms the sense, and melts in air." Mademoiselle Clairon, the celebrated French tragic actress, not contented with the shame she had acquired, once attempted contrary to the advice of her friends, to act the part of Merope, in …
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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… person to sell coffee publicly in England. By 1656, James Farr, had established the Rainbow Coffeehouse in competition with Rosee and soon thereafter many other coffeehouses began to proliferate. By 1663, there were eighty-two coffeehouses … of politeness that they saw in those places. They promoted an ideal whereby coffeehouse conversation should be informed, witty, and wise. 4 While this model of polite coffeehouse sociability remained an ideal, it became an ever more powerful … [BM] Department of Prints and Drawings, Catalogue of English Cartoons and Satirical Prints, 1320–1832 [BM Sat.] 1539; with C. Lamb after G. M. Woodward, ‘A Sudden Thought’ (London: S. W. Fores, 1 Jan. 1804), etching and stipple, (25 × 35.5 …
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Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… the Piazzo's, sustained by Stone Pillars, to support the Buildings. Under which are Walks, broad and convenient, paved with Freestone. The South Side lieth open to Bedford Garden, where there is a small Grotto of Trees, most pleasant in the … Roots, and Flowers, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; which is grown to a considerable Account, and well served with choice Goods, which makes it much resorted unto. 3 3 . John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster … last titled resident probably quit the area in 1757. The market continued to expand and fill the centre of the Piazza, with periodic rebuildings adding further shops and stalls. The Covent Garden Theatre opened in 1732, with an entrance …
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