Saint James's [ Cities ]
… Museum, 1868,0808.6554, 1796. Résumé St James’s refers to an urban area located in what we know as the West End of London, more precisely in the district of Westminster. 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 architectural … meant yearly meetings of Parliament. This brought the titled to Lo ndon between November and June, and created the ‘London season ‘ , a concept at the heart of London urban sociability. The renaissance of Court life in St James’s …
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