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Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… Pepys regularly visited the Palace on business, but it took some time for him to become comfortable interacting with courtiers, without fear of his presence being challenged. It was, however, a great place to learn the latest court scandal, and being seen there among nobles and statesmen implicitly raised his status. Across London, at the Royal … the Royal Exchange, Whitehall , and Westminster Hall were networks which supplied him with a wealth of foreign, local, court and city news. This allowed him to widen his influence in the navy, to make himself respected as a source of news, …
Diaries | Family | Hospitality | Navy | Patronage
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Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… continued to be customary for ambassadors, even in hostile countries, to accept lavish gifts on their departure from a Court, accepting gifts from a foreign power was always problematic. The danger was codified in the US constitution of … really mattered. In the early eighteenth century Patrick Haldane, a candidate for judicial office in the Edinburgh Court of Sessions who was accused of electoral bribery, distinguished ‘betwixt Bribery to compass Offices, and Bribery in …
Charity | Empire | Friendship | Gift | Hospitality | Reciprocity | Religion
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Hospitality (in the writings of James Cook and Watkin Tench) [ Social interaction / Mobility / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
Australia | Exploration | Gift | Hospitality | Pacific | Reciprocity | Ritual
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