Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… women could meet to converse, dance, and attend lectures and concerts. Despite being associational spaces of leisure and sociability, assembly rooms were still exclusive spaces, open to polite society and regulated by the Master of Ceremonies … Dance Entertainement Leisure Music Politeness Women Assembly rooms were institutions that encouraged and regulated sociability in the long eighteenth century, spaces where conversation, music, and dancing occurred. According to Peter … rooms continued in usage over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there was a shift in their popularity as spaces of sociability. 14 . A. Baggs, L. Brown, G. Forster, I. Hall, R. Horrox, G. Kent, and D. Neave, ‘Beverley, 1700-1835: Social …
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