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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
Dance | Diplomacy | Entertainement | Grand Tour | Italy | Travel
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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… a town’s mapping and layout, as urban planning reinforced notions of a collective, corporate identity (Borsay 80). Public buildings like assembly rooms contributed significantly to the overall image and gentrification of a town, … life in the town by the mid-1830s. 14 The use of the assembly rooms in Leeds featured a similar decline, as the 1835 publication, Walks Through Leeds , observed that the rooms ‘had rarely been opened in recent years’, before finally …
Assemblies | Community | Dance | Entertainement | Leisure | Music | Politeness | Women
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The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
Assemblies | Advertisement | Dance | North America
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Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… simply an issue of virginity but had become a complex social performance marked by a range of signs that amounted to a public display of purity. The battles over women’s hands, and over the kiss, were clearly unequal in physical terms. …
Conduct | Conventions | Dance | Gender | Kissing | Propriety | Touch
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