Edinburgh clubs and societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… with England during the first century of the British Union. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Keywords Britishness Enlightenment Highlands Scotland Eighteenth-ce ntury Edinburgh saw the creation of about 200 … society. In 1755, for example, the Edinburgh Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Sciences, Manufactures and Agriculture was established to improve the economy and the life of Scots. By the end of the eighteenth century, after the … the visit of George IV to Edinburgh, in 1822, these societies became a space for the promotion of a specific Scottish culture in Great Britain. Composers and writers such as Thomas Erskine, James Oswald, William McGibbon, Robert Burns, but …
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