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Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… in their accounts … There seems to have been much care taken to enter [into the vestry book] every thing relative to the abolition of a Body, who …, there is reason to suspect, greatly misapplied the monies that came to their hands.’ 13 13 …
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Jacques Necker (and public opinion) [ Politics / Publicity ]
… a moderate would become increasingly problematic, and his influence over the Assembly would diminish. Indeed, after the abolition of feudalism on the night of 4 August, the October Days of 1789 and requisitioning of the Church lands on 2 …
Censorship | Finance | French Revolution | Public sphere | Third Estate
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Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… office of promoting the cause of justice, humanity and freedom’. 18 18 . Thomas Clarkson, History of the . . . Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, vol. 2, p. 191–2, quoted by Susan Egenolf, ‘Josiah Wedgwood’s Goodwill Marketing’, …
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… – in particular in her fight against the French Revolution –, be they the alleviation of poverty or the campaign for the abolition of the slave trade. 33 She thus sketched out a different model of female sociability based on usefulness, a …
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