Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]
… one of London’s pleasure gardens, a typical eighteenth-century locus of sociability, which offered a mixture of social classes – suitably dressed people could attend – while retaining a flattering feeling of exclusiveness. It could gather … specific social groups, for instance balls in the townhouses of the nobility or city festivities for the merchant classes. The pleasure gardens offered new public spaces corresponding to Enlightenment forms of urban culture and … on the popularization of recent science such as research on volcanoes and spectacular disruptive phenomena, as well as classical references and Italian masquerading, creating a shared culture. Views by contemporaries were widely divergent 2 …
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