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… Image James Gillray, ‘Mendoza’, Met Museum, 66.683.9, 1788. Image Jack Broughton, Rules to Be Observed on All Battles of the Stage, 1743. Image C.R. Ryley, 'Daniel Mendoza & Richard Humphreys', United … a disciplined violence useful to maintain a pugilistic spirit in times of peace. Practices > Games & Sports Keywords Rules Sports The popularity of boxing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is attested by the great … the confusion of social classes, the middling-class mixing with the rank-and-file.   Boxing as an art & a science The rules of prizefighting The growing popularity of boxing in the mid-eighteenth century coincided with a global movement to …

… role of celebrity in the emergence of new communities. Places > Health Places > Nature Keywords Celebrity Fame Health Rules Spa Spa sociability is very often considered as a paradigm of an ‘open society.’ Openness for Neil McKendrick in … Yet they were immediately put under the firm guidance of the Master of Ceremonies and had to comply with a set of eleven rules that aimed at the harmonious cohabitation of the sexes and social classes. The clock-like organization of leisure … 1803 that an English Master of Ceremonies ‘cares for everything … and everywhere insists on the strict observance of the rules.’ German spa physicians, who in the main cared for medical matters, bore only in a few cases ‘a distant resemblance …

… letters and forged ones ;  The   Spectator  banned gossip and personal satire 5  while  The   Free-Thinker  fixed the rules of controversy and debates by forbidding personal abuses and misuse of words. 6 In addition, some of the papers …