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Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… and horse-racing. Practices > Associational culture Places > Clubs & Societies Keywords Colonies Gambling Gaming Horseracing Rules Sports Cricket While the game of cricket had become popular in the first half of the eighteenth … of Racing and Art on Newmarket Heath . (London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2016). … Colonies … Gambling … Gaming … Horseracing … Rules … Sports … Sporting clubs …
Colonies | Gambling | Gaming | Horseracing | Rules | Sports
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… of sociability but was denounced as anti-social. Practices > Games & Sports Keywords Clubs Duelling Gaming Gentleman Horseracing Suicide From the Restoration to the first decade of the Victorian era, gaming and gambling spread through all … in Britain and the USA (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996). … Clubs … Duelling … Gaming … Gentleman … Horseracing … Suicide … Gambling …
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Ascot [ Games & Sports / Sports & Leisure ]
… firent d’Ascot un lieu à la mode. Practices > Games & Sports Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Fashion Gambling Sports Horseracing Origines, évolutions et architecture d’un domaine royal L’hippodrome d’Ascot, ‘cottage de l’est’ selon son … A Sport-Loving Society: A Victorian and Edwardian Middle-Class England at Play (Frank Cass, 2005). Huggins, Mike, ‘Horseracing’, The Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century [online]. https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/horseracing.html Hughes G.M., The origin of the Ascot Races: A stray chapter from an unpublished history of Sunninghill …
Fashion | Gambling | Sports | Horseracing
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The Oatland Stakes at Ascot, 1791 [ Practices ]
… were entertained for general safety, all kinds of accidents being dreaded by anticipation." … Leisure … Gambling … Horseracing … "Ascot Heath", The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf, the chace, and …
Leisure | Gambling | Horseracing
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Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… of connoisseurs, and probably depicts the earl of Orford’s house near Newmarket, where politics could be combined with horseracing. Even without such grand meetings, elections occasioned social visits and letters between those seeking to …
Corruption | Elections | Impoliteness | Politeness | Politics | Print culture | Violence
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