Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… profit as well as recreation and diversion to many of their citizens, especially those involved in hotels, inns, taverns, other food and drink facilities, stables, smithies, farriers, entertainments, and a wide range of luxury service … over time, encouraged by the elite associability of London clubs, coffee houses or betting houses like Tattersall’s Turf Tavern, and from late in the century, the emergence of professional bookmakers. Thomas Rowlandson’s picture of a …
Elite | Gambling | Horseracing | Sports | Women
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