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West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… could regulate entry to high society. Places > Cities Places > Institutions Mots-clés Aristocracy Consumption Clubs Elite Gambling Gender Opera ‘The West End of the Town‘ (as it was usually known in the long eighteenth century) … 5 They showed up for the aristocratic season and were the people to be seen with. Gentlemen began to pursue life in the clubs of St. James's. The first of the West End clubs was White's, founded in a chocolate house on St James's Street in 1693. It became a centre for masculine company …
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Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… up a gavel, and a woman hits a man over the head with a tankard', Wellcome Collection, 32405i, 1789. Résumé Sporting clubs appeared in the eighteenth century as sports were beginning to organise. They emerged from the more informal … which this sport made possible. Coffee houses and inns were popular places in the eighteenth century, and some sporting clubs started their lives in such establishments as The Star and Garter Inn. Although sporting clubs are usually associated with the organisation of sports, they were primarily social clubs. Because they were some of …
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Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… gentlemanly conviviality, but also challenged the rules of sociability and friendship. Available in London gentlemen’s clubs for their members, betting books provided the written proof of the commitment of both parties and therefore … an amusement as popular as card or dice games and was definitely one of the main occupations of the members of West End clubs in the second half of the eighteenth century: ‘London clubs [provided] the world of fashion with a central office for making wagers, and a registry for recording them.’ 4 …
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Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… century and led to changes in design allowing these pieces of furniture to be smaller than the gaming tables used in clubs – such as those immortalised in drawings and caricatures of White’s for instance – as well as highly adaptable. 2 …
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Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… predominantly Protestant Whig racing focus for the newly-founded Jockey Club, the earliest of several subsequent racing clubs. 5 Racing gained support from King William, and then Queen Anne, who founded Ascot. The Germanic Georges were less … Ante-post betting on major races and high-stakes matches grew over time, encouraged by the elite associability of London clubs, coffee houses or betting houses like Tattersall’s Turf Tavern, and from late in the century, the emergence of …
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Giacomo Casanova [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… merchant who sold French wines, a cook who could speak French, and introduced him to several ‘strange confraternities’, clubs and masonic lodges. The same day, an Italian man of letters he met at a coffee house showed him a house for rent …
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