Edinburgh clubs and societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… Image John Burnet after Sir William Allan, ‘Fictitious portrait of Robert Burns’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D32438, circa 1838. Résumé This entry gives an overview of the clubs and societies of Edinburgh during the … They provided a genuine place of political expression for the new elites determined to raise Edinburgh to the level of London, the capital of the new kingdom of Great Britain. 4 4 . N.T. Phillipson, ‘Scotland’s Age of Improvement: A Survey … conviviality and trust among the members. 5 . Henry Grey Graham, The Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century (London: Black Ltd, 1937), p. 115. Men gained a status in Edinburgh social circles depending on the group they were …
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