Saint James's [ Cities ]
… To account for its full spatial as well as social dimensions and to understand what role it played in the emergence and fashioning of London sociability, it is essential to consider St James’s as intrinsically associated with its main … Park, St James’s Square, St James’s Street and its coffeehouses and clubs. Places > Cities Mots-clés Clubs Coffeehouses Fashion Gambling Nature The political revolution that established William and Mary on the throne in 1689 had new … enclosed by Henry VIII as royal hunting ground. Following the Restoration, Charles II ‘poured large sums of money into fashioning St James’s Park as a reinstatement of natural order.’ It became one of London’s most fashionable promenades, …
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