Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Assembly rooms across Great Britain became the physical and social heart of the community, places where men and women could meet to converse, dance, and attend lectures and concerts. Despite being associational spaces of leisure and … culture Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Mots-clés Assemblies Community Dance Entertainement Leisure Music Politeness Women Assembly rooms were institutions that encouraged and regulated sociability in the long eighteenth century, spaces … former MP for Bath. 9 For Lady Directresses, who were typically found in the North of England and Scotland, these women were elected from amongst the civic elite. 10 In Edinburgh in the 1760s and 1770s, the Honourable Miss Nicky …
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