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Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… to be referred to the noblemen and gentlemen present, including, on occasion, to the king. William III upheld the royal tradition at Newmarket, which he visited regularly (although, unlike Charles, he was not a horseman). Queen Anne visited …
Colonies | Gambling | Gaming | Horseracing | Rules | Sports
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Boxing [ Games & Sports ]
… to write a set of articles entitled ‘In Defence of Boxing’. His eulogy of the sport was as much a celebration of rural traditions than a ferocious attack against the ‘system of effeminacy’ stimulated by Pitt’s social and economic policies. …
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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… came at a price and led sensitive individuals to reject spa sociability altogether and nostalgically look on the traditional ideal of retirement which was renewed with the fashioning of the romantic self. Hannah More provides a …
Celebrity | Fame | Health | Rules | Spa
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