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… so divisive that sociability broke down. Practices > Politics & Society Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Mots-clés Dining Elections Public sphere Tories Whigs Women Sociability was intrinsic to British politics in the eighteenth-century. For … this networking, solicitation, manoeuvring, and negotiation — be it about policy or patronage, factional alliances, or elections — took place in mixed-sex social arenas that included women, or were hosted by women. 2 1 . Elaine Chalus, … Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture project (ECPPEC) has established that there were 11,672 elections and by-elections in England between 1695 and 1832. Of these, 28.44% were fully contested (i.e., they went to …
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