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Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]

… Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Mots-clés Women political hostess dinner Public Days race meet election canvassing chairing Sociability was intrinsic to British politics in the eighteenth-century. For Members of Parliament and members … no violence to echo this riot. Whitbread and Pollhill were in due course elected to the town’s two seats and Whitbread’s chairing — the carrying of the victorious candidate around the town in a sumptuously decorated chair — was allowed to go … without any recurrence. The town gloried, however, in Polhill’s triumph over Lord John Russell. The description of his chairing, as given by the editor of the local newspaper, is particularly interesting not only for what it reveals about …

Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]

… 2. Once the poll had been completed another occasion for sociability came with the announcement of the victor and the ‘chairing’ of the new member, an eighteenth century development (it had declined again by the mid nineteenth-century) in … nearly toppling out of a chair carried by an unruly gang and again with echoes of chaotic violence all around. Indeed, chairing could be highly divisive and undermine sociability. 16  But it could also be a moment of sociable unity. The chairing, and its process, in Leicester in 1768 brought out ‘the greatest concourse of People ever seen in this Town on …