Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]
… the Musick playing’, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1755. Résumé Pleasure gardens were a type of eighteenth-century public spaces which offered diverse forms of entertainment for their visitors. Their spatial design coincided with the growth of the public sphere and fostered disparate forms of social interactions on their premises. Related to the growing commodification of …
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