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Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… serve his ambitions, Pepys also enjoyed making the most of the leisure opportunities and meeting places of Restoration London. His diary of the 1660s and other papers reveal his relationships with a wide range of Londoners, along with his changing patterns of sociability across his life. People > Art and Literature People > Politics … in his diary of the 1660s, owed much to his strategic approach to sociability. Pepys had been born the son of a London tailor in 1633 and became Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board in 1660, thanks to the patronage of his first cousin …
Diaries | Family | Hospitality | Navy | Patronage
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Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… humane : It must be allowed its share of both ’. 3 2 . Robert L’Estrange, Seneca's Morals Abstracted in Three Parts (London: printed by T.N. for Henry Brome, 1679), pp. 77-78. 3 . Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Nature, Offices, and Measures of Friendship with Rules of Conducting it (London: Royston, 1657), pp. 100-101. Ideas about Christian charity – philanthropic sociability - also involved … kept a lion, a gift from Samuel Martin, the English consul in Algiers. 7 . Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Henry Wheatley (London: George Bell, 1893), 9 Sept. 1664. Gloves and engraved rings were common items in the eighteenth century – in …
Charity | Empire | Friendship | Gift | Hospitality | Reciprocity | Religion
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Freemasonry [ Associational culture / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… Carpenter, John Theophilus Desaguliers: A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England (New York & London: Continuum, 2011). Un autre ami et disciple d'Isaac Newton, incarne d’emblée le remarquable potentiel de la … de la Manche. C’est ce qui rassemble Charles Lennox, duc de Richmond, vénérable maître ( Worshipful Master ) de la loge londonienne The Horn (1723-1724 ; 1725-1738), ancien Grand Maître de la Grande Loge d’Angleterre (1724-1725) et Fellow … Revolutionary Brotherhood. Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1740 (Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), p. 9. Pour se faire une idée de son horizon symbolique, voir …
Aristocracy | Commerce | Freemasonry | Hospitality
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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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