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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… parties of gamesters, from exclusive gambling clubs or elite assemblies at private residences to popular city taverns or coffeehouses where various social classes mingled and indulged in fashionable games, thus fostering new forms of sociable … laws aimed, with little success, at suppressing the games of faro , basset or hazard (1739) or at preventing taverns and coffeehouses from serving as gambling dens (acts of 1750). 2 The Gaming Acts of 1739 and 1745, designed to curb the …
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Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… can be understood as institutions of the public sphere going further down the social scale than gentlemen’s clubs or coffeehouses. They developed in London, and later in provincial cities, in the second half of the eighteenth century. By … Senate (1808) and in the numerous discussions of the eloquence (and not just substantive arguments) of leading MPs in coffeehouses and in the press. 11 People flocked to debating societies because they wanted to hear good oratory, and to …
Advertisement | Clubs | Debate | Eloquence | Gender | Middling sort | North America | Politics | Public sphere
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Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… satirical representations of diverse forms of meeting and mixing on the streets, at fairs, and in parks, taverns and coffeehouses. He wrote to entertain, and satirical exaggeration was germane to the endeavour, but his humour nevertheless …
Clubs | Humour | Impoliteness | Politics | Satire | Sex | Taverns
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