Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… and gentlemanly conviviality, but also challenged the rules of sociability and friendship. Available in London gentlemen’s clubs for their members, betting books provided the written proof of the commitment of both parties and … recorded in such a specific archival source mirror both the diverse pastimes, tastes and fashions of eighteenth-century gentlemen and the evolution of their personal and collective values, interests, motives and anxieties. Moreover, it … gambling situations as they could, at any moment, become the object of a bet, as suggested by the Connoisseur : ‘The gentlemen who now frequent this place [White’s], profess a kind of universal scepticism; and as they look upon everything …
Conflict | Conviviality | Gambling | Gentleman
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