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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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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… the Origins of an Associational World (Oxford: Clarendon P, 2000), p. 228. To the aristocracy, gambling was, by tradition, an activity revolving around the royal court, authorised and regulated by the Groom Porter . 10 Under the …
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… cross-class mixing articulating vertical ties that united rich, middling and poor followers, and built on time-honoured traditions of carnival-related festivity, while also allowing a substantial element of social selectivity in contexts …
Elite | Gambling | Horseracing | Sports | Women
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