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West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… of the Eidouranian. Front Boxes and Gallery’, Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inherita Résumé The West End of London generated new forms of networking and sociability. This entry argues that the West End was shaped by both … century) generated new forms of connection and association that we associate with the urban renaissance. The area of London from the Strand over to St James's became an embryonic pleasure district, distinctive for locations that served … 62. 3 . Clemens Zimmermann, ‘The Productivity of the City in the Early Modern Era: The Book and Art Trade in Venice and London‘, in Martina Hessler and Clemens Zimmermann (eds.), Creative Urban Milieus: Historical Perspectives on Culture, …
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Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… c. 1790-1799. 1 . Rowland Bowen, Cricket: a History of its Growth and Development throughout the World (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970), p. 59. The importance of the club may be linked to its founders and membership being … in David Oldrey, Timothy Cox and Richard Nash, The Heath & the Horse: a History of Racing and Art on Newmarket Heath. (London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2016), p. 275. Nash further speculates that the noblemen dining with the King on his … Références complémentaires Bowen, Rowland, Cricket: a History of its Growth and Development throughout the World (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970). Ganguly, Narendranath, The Calcutta Cricket Club: Its Origin and Development …
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Ascot [ Games & Sports / Sports & Leisure ]
… Image The Illustrated London News (London, vol. 2, Jan-Jun 1843, p. 438). Image James Smyth, Frederick, ‘Pic-nic Party, At Ascot Races’, The Illustrated London News (London, vol.1, Jan-Jun 1844, p. 368) Image James Pollard, ‘The Ascot Gold Cup’, 1834, WikiCommons. Image …
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Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… interaction 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 … with the development of life insurance. ‘Life insurance was largely an urban phenomenon’ 2 and the growth of the London insurance market was associated with the expansion of English foreign trade in the second half of the seventeenth … 1 . The Connoisseur, n° 15 (Thursday May 9, 1754) 2 . Geoffrey Clark, ‘Life insurance in the society and culture of London, 1700-75’, Urban History, (vol. 24, n° 1, May 1997), p. 25. 3 . The South Sea Bubble corresponds to the …
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
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Giacomo Casanova [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… of a more secretive and tightly connected network, the Freemasons, who helped him access high society in cities such as London, Saint-Petersburg, Paris or Madrid. But his most natural companionship came from the world of theatre. … was the object of a sustained oral practice and reworkings before it became a written autobiography. Casanova’s stay in London which lasted almost a year is an apt illustration of his usual strategy for creating social connections, as well … material profit, such contacts bolstered his aspirations to be part of the Republic of letters. But Casanova had come to London hoping to establish a type of lottery that he had successfully launched in Paris and for that he needed to be …
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Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… Table at Devonshire House’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 41.77.1, 1791. Image Richard Seymour, The Compleat Gamester (London: E. Curll, 1734) (frontispiece). Résumé Although game scene paintings from the sixteenth century usually feature … green as a reminder of the lawns on which the game was originally played. 4 . Abraham De Moivre, Faro and Rouge et Noir (London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1793). Aesthetic and Technical Aspects As a table chiefly designed to entertain (in … creates, And dread Destruction on its Meal awaits’ 5 5 . Anon., An Essay on Gaming in An Epistle to a Young Nobleman (London, 1761), p. 19. The gaming table was, it seems, also seen as a place of danger, where unsuspecting players could be …
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Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… shame of men of rank and quality’. 6 6 . Daniel Defoe, A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain 3rd Edition (London: Osborn et all, 1742), p.78-9. By 1739 a contemporary racing calendar listed a network of 138 separate race … offered such levels. 7 . John Cheny, A Historical List of All Horse Matches Run and All Plates and Prizes Run For (London: Cheny, 1739) 8 . Gaming Act on horseracing 13 Geo. 2, ch. 19 (1740) Even Newmarket struggled in the 1740s, but it … Such meetings took place in the period from March to October, when fashionable nobility and gentry society moved from London or town houses to enjoy county estate life and a nearby urban race meeting’s multiple leisure attractions. Towns …
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