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… Houses of Parliament into the men’s clubs and great London townhouses, into assembly-rooms, ballrooms, dining rooms, the theatre, and the opera. 1 There, they could be found using social situations to seek support for pet projects or … during election campaigns. Eighteenth-century elections could be carnivalesque episodes of self-conscious political theatre characterized by rituals of social inversion. Elite candidates were expected to step temporarily out of their …
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