… filtered into the common room via the daily papers now purchased through common room subscriptions, to provide food for conversation and subjects for wagers. If many bets dealt with the situation in France and the outcome of the war with … considers male gossip as a prominent practice in gentlemen’s clubs and confirms that the betting book inevitably fuelled conversation and debate as men discussed the latest news and rumours of the day. Betting was a shared sociable …
… groups, thus suggesting that the viewing of art was a sociable experience, works of art being a source of comment and conversation. 11 Even if the motto inscribed in the Great Room, ‘Let No Stranger to the Muses Enter’, seemed to incite …
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