Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… the mixing of polite strata in Georgian society, from the nobility to the middling sort. 1 . Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), p.150; T.B. Burr, A History of Tunbridge Wells (London, 1766), pp. 38, … 2 Over the course of the long eighteenth century, purpose-built assembly rooms were constructed in a wide range of urban centers, including spa (Bath and Cheltenham), market (Beverley), county (Newcastle), industrial (Manchester), and … old Mansion Houses, and seldom saw Company but at an Assize, a Horse-Race, or a Fair’ (Borsay 151-2). 3 The proliferation of assembly rooms, particularly later in the eighteenth century also maps onto the change in attitudes towards …
Assemblies | Community | Dance | Entertainement | Leisure | Music | Politeness | Women
Encyclopedia