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Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… into wider sociability and cultural life. The annual race week created an important urban social space, involving both public and private sociability, attracting racehorse owners and gamblers; men and women; the country and towns-folk; and … love of the sport. Over the 1700s horse racing became by far the best-organized, best-supported, most high-status, best-publicized and increasingly commercial sporting activity across England and parts of Scotland and Wales. In many towns … This helped the sport to become part of a new leisure industry. Specialist annual calendars summarized past results and publicized upcoming events, and fortnightly sheets advertised stallions and provided racing news. 9 . C.P. Lewis, ‘John …
Elite | Gambling | Horseracing | Sports | Women
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The Connoisseur 15 (1754) [ Practices ]
… White's, the present grand scene of these transactions was formerly distinguished by gallantry and intrigue. During the publication of the Tatler , Sir Richard Steel thought proper to date all his love-news from that quarter: but it would …
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West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
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Ascot [ Games & Sports / Sports & Leisure ]
… jusqu’au vendredi, jour où la qualité et l’intérêt des courses étaient moindres en raison du départ progressif du public. 7 . La première publication de ce calendrier sous le titre de Historical List, or Account of All the Horse-Matches Run, and of all the … croissant de visiteurs et de participants. Ceci favorisa la construction d’emplacements, notamment des tribunes, pour le public et parmi celles-ci, le Royal Stand, ou Royal Box, 11 dont les changements furent nombreux comme l’attestent les …
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Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… the aristocracy and the middle classes in the long eighteenth century as we can see from the numerous treatises and publications on the subject such as Edmund Hoyle’s The Polite Gamester (1745) or Games improved (1755) in which card … Reith, Gerda, The Age of Chance: Gambling in Western Culture (London: Routledge, 1999). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Public Advertiser (1781) The Young Lady's Pocket Library (1793) … Although game scene paintings from the sixteenth …
Aristocracy | Domesticity | Furniture | Gambling | Gaming | Playing
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
Correspondence | Fashion | Fiction | Gambling | Politics | Suicide
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Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
Colonies | Gambling | Gaming | Horseracing | Rules | Sports
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Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… 10 . Letter to Mann (1 Sept. 1750), Horace Walpole, Correspondence, Vol. 20, p. 185. This anecdote was originally made public the week in the London Evening Post, n° 3564 (25-28 Aug. 1750). Twelve years later, Casanova de Seignalt referred …
Conflict | Conviviality | Gambling | Gentleman
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