Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Lady Directress. Places > Sports & Leisure Practices > Associational culture Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Mots-clés Assemblies Community Dance Entertainement Leisure Music Politeness Women Assembly rooms were institutions that encouraged … the development of assembly rooms across Great Britain and the wider British empire. 1 In their most basic form, assemblies promoted the mixing of polite strata in Georgian society, from the nobility to the middling sort. 1 . Peter … the ferment of urban entertainments that was brewing between 1688 and 1722, as John Macky observed in 1722 that, ‘ These assemblies are very convenient for young people; for formerly the Country Ladies were stewed up in their father's old …
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