Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… History, 12 (1993), p. 171-83. Even before an election had been announced party leaders sometimes gathered for sociable meetings that mixed business with pleasure. Thus a group portrait of the ‘Junto’ (see illustration above), the leaders of … the earl of Orford’s house near Newmarket, where politics could be combined with horseracing. Even without such grand meetings, elections occasioned social visits and letters between those seeking to marshal an ‘interest’ behind a … of such songs, together with poems and other electoral ephemera (such as candidates’ advertisements about electoral meetings), were published in volumes as collectables. The collector of one early miscellany, relating to a York election, …
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