Edinburgh clubs and societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… it assesses their influence and impact on both the Scottish Enlightenment and the evolution of Scotland’s relation with England during the first century of the British Union. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture … century and thanks, among others, to Sir Walter Scott’s defense of the idea of a complementarity between Scotland and England for the benefit of Great Britain , public opinion accepted the idea of a Scottish cultural specificity compatible … eat national dishes such as haggis and drink whisky during dedicated ceremonies. The same was actually also true in England with the Beefsteak Club , for instance. In both cases, the idea was either to mock the nationalist exaggerations …
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