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Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… of Lewis Walpope Library, 795.05.05.01, 1756?-1811?. Résumé Debating societies became well-established institutions in London and provincial cities, catering for the taste for public debate among the lower and middling sorts. Topics could … of the public sphere going further down the social scale than gentlemen’s clubs or coffeehouses. They developed in London, and later in provincial cities, in the second half of the eighteenth century. By the mid-eighteenth century, … Associational World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 119. 3 . Mary Thale, ‘Deists, Papists and Methodists at London Debating Societies, 1749–1799’, History (86, no. 283, 1 July 2001), p. 332. Development and Retreat What little we …
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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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Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]
… institutions and power. They modelled their system and social life on the ones of the British capitals of Edinburgh and London; sociability and politeness being key components of the lives of the local elites. As an expression of the gap … For instance, in April 1713, a response to a Vindication against the Highland Clans was published by James Watson in London to explain that the Highlanders supporting the Jacobite cause were in fact loyal to the Scottish/British Monarchy, … The Highlanders of Scotland, Their Origin, History, and Antiquities, with a Sketch of Their Manners and Customs (Vol. 1, London: John Murray, 1837). 2 . Unknown, ‘Memorial Concerning the State of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland‘, 1724 …
Clans | Clubs | Enlightenment | Highlands | Scotland | Tradition
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… of the British Museum, 1868,0808.6282. Image ‘Scene from “School for Scandal” being performed in Drury Lane Theatre, London; four actors on stage, the audience watching from boxes on either side’, 1778, © The Trustees of the British … of the British Museum, M.4966. Résumé Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 1751, Dublin, Ireland – 7 July 1816, London, England) was an Irish-born British playwright, poet, politician, 'clubbable' orator and owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as The Rivals (1775 ), The School for Scandal …
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Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… Hogarth, of Edward Ward, A Compleat and humorous account of all the remarkable clubs and societies in the cities of London and Westminster, Compil'd from the original papers of a gent., 1745 Résumé Edward ‘Ned’ Ward was a satirist and tavern keeper active in early eighteenth-century London, best known for his London Spy (1698-1701) – a walkabout tour of the metropolis that typified his hearty comic style and eye for graphic …
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David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… Hume as a sociable philosopher, in theory and in practice ̶ he belonged to diverse clubs and societies in Scotland and London, then at Hume’s participation in the Republic of Letters, and finally at philosophy as the practice of … and a central philosopher (Hume wrote in France, worked in France, belonged, for a while, to the world of letters in London). The reception of his works testifies to this ambivalence: until the end of his life, he lamented the lack of … such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.’ 1 1 . The Life of David Hume, esq. Written by Himself (London, 1777), p. 8-9. The role he played in the definition of the Scottish Enlightenment invites further consideration …
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… Image James Gillray, ‘The Loss of the Faro Bank; or—the Rook's Pigeon'd’, 1797, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D12595 Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘A Gaming Table at Devonshire House’, Met Museum, 41.77.1, 1791 Image Thomas … in all parts of society, and involved women as well as men. 3 . G. O. Trevelyan, The Early History of Charles James Fox (London: Longmans, Green & co, 1881), p. 88-89. Popular classes spent their meagre savings in the numerous gambling … when the Fair One can’t the Debt defray In Sterling Coin, does Sterling Beauty pay. 6 6 . James Shirley, The Gamester (London: John Norton, 1637). In Susanna Centlivre ’s The Basset Table (1705), the main gambling character is a woman who …
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… remove themselves from the public eye rather than carouse in the streets – a withdrawal that only set the rumor mills of London to churn more heavily and has led contemporaries as well as historians to difficulties teasing apart legends from … worthiest Men of these Times’. 3 2 . Evelyn Lord, The Hell-Fire Clubs. Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2010), p. 50. 3 . Henry Fielding, The Covent Garden Journal, 11 Feb. 1752. The first known … to impose was defeated – unsurprisingly, Wharton himself had spoken passionately against it – but it nevertheless set London’s press aflame. On May 6 th 1721, the Tory newspaper Applebee’s identified atheism as the prevailing problem of …
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