Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… outlining the audience and purpose of the assembly as ‘a stated and general meeting of the polite persons of both sexes; for the sake of conversation, gallantry, news, and play’. 5 The assembly rooms were spaces for balls, concerts, …
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