Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… kinship, an informal venue of political opposition, and a prototype for Dr Johnson’s Club, among many others. People > Association Practices > Associational culture Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Friendship Merchants Patronage Whigs The Kit-Cat Club … operated as an informal centre of opposition. They saw their gatherings as sustaining rights of free expression and association that they believed a French-backed Jacobite restoration would extinguish, and on the eve of Anne’s death were …
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