… or Skinner and Dyke’s became part of the fashionable town life as they increasingly advertised their gentility in the newspapers and started using ushers to regulate crowds, while some made 1-shilling catalogues compulsory for entry. By …
… adjuncts of male Jacobin clubs. They initially tended to be less political, circumscribing their activities to reading newspapers and preparing revolutionary festivals. When they did become political, such as the Société des citoyennes …
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… (eastern part of the Strand) from 1749 to 1779 and advertised its activities by printed bills posted in the city and by newspapers advertisements. The Robin Hood Society was a well-structured society, with officers, a book of rules, rituals, …
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… 15 . The process was well demonstrated by Ann C. Dean, 'Court Culture and Political News in London's Eighteenth-Century Newspapers', ELH: Journal of English Literary History (vol. 73, n° 3, Fall 2006), p. 631-49. Partager Partager sur …
… toasting flourished, and, alongside the publication of toastmasters’ guides or the publication of lists of toasts in the newspapers, the multiplication of toastmasters’ glasses confirms the buoyancy of this trend. Partager Partager sur …
… success of the political debates that had been made possible by the relaxation of the press laws (increased number of newspapers and reading rooms), mentioning in particular the lectures delivered at the Athénée (the Lycée’s new name since …
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