Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… Dublin, and probably elsewhere. There were some ten debating societies (and three debating clubs) in eighteenth-century Scotland. 6 4 . Martyn J. Powell, ‘‘Beef, Claret and Communication‘: Convivial Clubs in the Public Sphere, 1750-1800‘ in … (14, 1971), p.15-47, p. 17 and 37. 6 . Davis Dunbar McElroy, The Literary Clubs and Societies of Eighteenth Century Scotland: and Their Influence on the Literary Productions of the Period from 1700 to 1800 (Unpublished PhD thesis, … 3 (n° 3, 1 September 1980), p. 216–229. McElroy, Davis Dunbar, ‘The Literary Clubs and Societies of Eighteenth Century Scotland: and Their Influence on the Literary Productions of the Period from 1700 to 1800’ (Unpublished PhD Diss. …
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