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Robinson’s and Friday’s Island [ Nature ]
Cosmopolitanism | Deism | Enlightenment | Exploration | Freemasonry | Religion | Solitude
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Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]
Dissent | Fiction | Friendship | Tories | Satire | Whigs
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Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]
… it and gained benefit from it. 1 . Charles Dickens, Household Words, 17 January 1852, p. 89-90. Cited in Simon Cross, Mediating Madness: Mental Distress and Cultural Representation (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p. 74. Few …
Confinement | Entertainement | Insanity | Punishment | Satire
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Jacques Necker (and public opinion) [ Politics / Publicity ]
Censorship | Finance | French Revolution | Public sphere | Third Estate
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Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… absent, however, from the American iteration of spa sociability was the role of Master of Ceremonies. The role of a mediator in spa sociability pioneered by Beau Nash in Bath in the mid eighteenth-century, 12 was simply not to be found … when meals were served, there was no organized plan of the day or other means used in Bath to regulate sociability and mediate some of the potential tensions arising from differences in class or status. Instead, patrons formed their own …
Colonies | Cosmopolitanism | Health | Leisure | North America | Spa | Travel
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Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
Benevolence | Middling sort | Politeness | Rank
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Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
Civility | Conversation | Consumption | Periodicals
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Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]
Advertisement | Audience | Collecting | Entertainement | Print culture | Theatre
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Methodism [ Spirituality / Associational culture / Religious Belief ]
… century, many bishops considered that the established Churches in England, Wales and Ireland were an ideal via media between the horrors of Catholicism and of Puritanism that had plagued the country in the seventeenth century. The …
Catholicism | Churches | Dissent | Methodism | North America | Sermon
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