… disseminated nationwide through journals such as The Spectator (1711-12, 1714), profoundly shaped the course of British sociability and national identity. The dates of the Kit-Cat’s foundation and dissolution are uncertain, as no official … 3 It met primarily in private upstairs rooms of taverns in central London or Hampstead, which locates the Club’s sociability between the public and private spheres. However, starting in 1703, at a property leased by Tonson in Barn … and university friends which they felt to be as important as blood relations and which they sought to maintain via adult sociability. They enjoyed a setting that put them on an equal intellectual footing, such as that they had experienced at …