Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… candidates and electors, elections could be significant sites of sociability and even festivity, in person and in print; but they could also generate unsociability in the form of drunkenness, hostility, bitter partisanship and even … and social culture. Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Corruption Elections Impoliteness Politeness Politics Print culture Violence Parliamentary elections were the sites of both polite sociability and impolite, divisive, abusive … party, depicts them shortly before the disastrous election of 1710 sitting around a table looking at antique medals and prints as though they were a club of connoisseurs, and probably depicts the earl of Orford’s house near Newmarket, where …
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