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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]

… & Leisure Practices > Associational culture Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Mots-clés Politeness dancing Music leisure Entertainement Women Assembly rooms were institutions that encouraged and regulated sociability in the long eighteenth … polite society and regulated by the Master of Ceremonies or Lady Directress. … Politeness … dancing … Music … leisure … Entertainement … Women … Assembly rooms …

Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]

… in the constitution of collective taste. Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Dramatic art Worldliness Connivance Entertainement Taste Community Performing plays in one’s home was not specific to the eighteenth century, but it is … the role of worldly connivance in the constitution of collective taste. … Dramatic art … Worldliness … Connivance … Entertainement … Taste … Community … Private theatre performances …

Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]

… group of their own social circle.   Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Vauxhall Pleasure gardens visuality Sociability Entertainement Vauxhall pleasure garden was one of the public outdoor places of sociability: the ‘ pleasure gardens’ … entertaining a small group of their own social circle.   … Vauxhall … Pleasure gardens … visuality … Sociability … Entertainement … Vauxhall …

Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]

… civilization were distorted into manifestations of madness. Places > Health Mots-clés Insanity Confinement Punishment Entertainement Bedlam Satire On 17 January 1852, Charles Dickens published in Household Words an article, ‘A Curious … that made for civilization were distorted into manifestations of madness. … Insanity … Confinement … Punishment … Entertainement … Bedlam … Satire … Bethlem Hospital …

William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]

… People > Travel Mots-clés Sir William Hamilton Emma Hamilton Lady Catherine Hamilton Dance performance Naples Travel Entertainement Grand Tour As British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples, Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) welcomed … of his villa. … Sir William Hamilton … Emma Hamilton … Lady Catherine Hamilton … Dance … performance … Naples … Travel … Entertainement … Grand Tour … William and Emma Hamilton …

Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]

… created shared cultural references. Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Pleasure gardens Politeness Luxury Spectacle Entertainement Masquerade Exoticism Visual culture Ranelagh was one of the ‘pleasure gardens’, places of entertainment … housed an orchestra. This created shared cultural references. … Pleasure gardens … Politeness … Luxury … Spectacle … Entertainement … Masquerade … Exoticism … Visual culture … Ranelagh …