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Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… various coffee shops, taverns, bagnios and brothels, as well as the space of the Piazza, which was a site of political meetings and mobs. This slice of London life was presided over by the church of St Paul’s, situated at the western end of … its eccentric mix of personalities, was a breeding ground for ideas and discussion.’ 6 James Boswell’s descriptions of meeting literary figures, visiting theatres, hearing sermons in the church and sleeping with prostitutes perhaps best … was known as a cruising ground from early in the eighteenth century and there was at least one ‘molly house’, or gay meeting place, in the area. 8 5 . Tony Henderson, Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century: Prostitution and Control in the …
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… as a microcosm of the restored social order in England after the upheavals of the civil wars and interregnum. At its meetings, experiments were performed for an assembly of witnesses who could freely assent to the truth of what they saw. … literary societies, student clubs, subscription libraries, and local improvement societies flourished, sometimes meeting in private dwellings but more usually in hired rooms in coffeehouses, inns, or taverns. Scientific topics were … individuals could socialize on an equal basis. It does not appear that experiments were performed in the society’s meetings, but empirical facts were frequently discussed. The members coalesced around acceptance of what were sometimes …
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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… art works, and real estate were held in coffeehouses. Many professionals used coffeehouses as a surrogate office for meeting with clients and for conducting business. The insurance industry developed in coffeehouses such as Lloyd’s, a … wore on. In fact, the history of clubs and coffeehouses remained intertwined throughout the period. From the first meetings of the Rota Club in the 1650s to the meetings of Johnson’s famous Club in the age of George III, clubs and coffeehouses played a complementary role in …
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… and freely received by the great number of persons that were present of all qualities’. 5 Coffeehouses enabled the meeting of commerce and a post-courtly elite, as the merchants’ efforts to disseminate these artefacts were met by the … in accumulating objects. The lots he attributed both fuelled polite conversation and provided the décor for sociable meetings. Auction doubled as a spectacle where people looked at unique artefacts while observing how other bidders’ …
Art | Audience | Collecting | Commerce | Coffeehouses | Exhibitions
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