Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Borsay noted that, between 1660 and 1770, sixty-five spa and market towns funded and built assembly rooms for their communities, based on newspapers and assembly room records (151, 336-49). The germination of assembly rooms maps onto the …
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