Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… Fores, 1 Jan. 1804), etching and stipple, (25 × 35.5 cm), BM Sat. 10325.1; Lewis Walpole Library, [LWL] 804.1.1.7 Résumé Coffeehouses were key centres of sociability in eighteenth-century Britain. They played an important role both as real … for social interaction and as virtual places in which normative ideals of urban and polite sociability were imagined. Coffeehouses were centres of sociability because they brought people together for the ostensible purpose of drinking … as the emergence of a complementary sociable institution. Places > Institutions Places > Food & Drink venues Mots-clés Coffeehouses Drinking Public sphere Politics Coffeehouses were key centres of sociability in eighteenth-century Britain. …
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