Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… has shown that the decades after 1688 witnessed a ‘national expansion’ in clubs, as people banded together in search of association and friendly social interaction. 7 By the 1720s, one-time-spy turned travel writer, John Macky, described … portrait of sociability in the capital. 7 . Peter Clark, British Clubs and Societies, 1500-1800: the Origin of an Associational World (Oxford, 2000), p. 60-93 8 . John Macky, A Journey through England, (London, 1724), p. 259. 9 . Ned …
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