Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Street’, York Museums Trust, YORAG: R1482, 1759. Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘A Master of the Ceremonies Introducing a Partner’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 59.533.500, 1795. Résumé In the long eighteenth century, assembly rooms became an established institution in … growing in number over the course of the ‘century’. Assembly rooms across Great Britain became the physical and social heart of the community, places where men and women could meet to converse, dance, and attend lectures and concerts. Despite …
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