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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… imagined. Coffeehouses were centres of sociability because they brought people together for the ostensible purpose of drinking coffee, but they also encouraged discussion and often debate over matters of common interest. News gathering, news reading and news sharing were as integral to coffeehouse sociability as coffee drinking. Rather than seeing the coffeehouse as a wholly unique and liberal institution, more recent studies have … which it emerged out of, and was integrated into, the social structures of early modernity. Rather than replacing older drinking spaces such as the alehouse or the tavern, the rise of the coffeehouse is now best understood as the emergence …
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Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… for a ritual encounter and structured sociability. Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés alcool Celebration Conviviality Drinking Masculinity Ritual Tableware Punch was a drink made from a blend of alcohol spirit, fruit, sugar, spices and … Present, (no. 214, 2012), pp. 174-180. The punch bowl itself was an object that straddled distinctions in the market of drinking objects. In the early eighteenth century the bowls were made from silver, pewter, glass and a range of ceramics, … fine earthenware, punch was served in a bowl which blended the associations of rowdy, refined, associational and polite drinking cultures. 2 That bowls were produced in many different sizes also made them accessible to groups small and …
Alcohol | Celebration | Conviviality | Drinking | Masculinity | Ritual | Tableware
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Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… c. 1720. Résumé The tea-table is an object, an event, and an idea, the context of which is the emergence of tea drinking in Britain in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. As an item of furniture, the tea-table is a small table, imported from Asia or of domestic manufacture, whose purpose was to facilitate tea drinking. As an event, the practice of tea drinking was a polite and sociable encounter staged around the tea-table. In media representations (visual culture, …
Conversation | Domesticity | Exoticism | Furniture | Gossip | Politeness | Public sphere | Tea | Tea-table
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Edinburgh clubs and societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… and promotion of sciences, arts and philosophy. Their meetings were usually organised along with suppers and wine drinking. 5 The Edinburgh Cape Club (1730), based in a tavern, was famous for its drinking sessions. These rituals were essential to the reinforcement of conviviality and trust among the members. 5 . … https://www.digitens.org/fr/notices/edinburgh-clubs-and-societies.html Références complémentaires Andrews, Corey E., ‘Drinking and Thinking: Club Life and Convivial Sociability in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh’, Social History of …
Britishness | Enlightenment | Highlands | Scotland
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Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… of London and Westminster (London: Newbery, 1769). Kirkby, Diane and Luckins, Tanja, Dining on Turtles: Food Feasts and Drinking in History (London: Palgrave, 2007). Pidcock, Gilbert, The History and Anatomical Description of a Cassowar, … of London and Westminster (London: Newbery, 1769). Kirkby, Diane and Luckins, Tanja, Dining on Turtles: Food Feasts and Drinking in History (London: Palgrave, 2007). Pidcock, Gilbert, The History and Anatomical Description of a Cassowar, …
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James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]
… Gallery, London, NPG 4452, 1785. Résumé After a restricted childhood, Boswell as a young man broke out to become a hard-drinking womaniser and dedicated socialiser. He also devoted considerable time to seeking out the company of great men, … women in terms of sociability rather than for sexual pleasure. He was a depressive, often connected to his excessive drinking, which placed a limit on his capacity for sociability. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés alcool Depression … kept for more or less the whole of his life, and which remained lost until the early years of the twentieth century. Drinking for Boswell almost always took place within a social context. He was not particularly choosey, though, about the …
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Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… a proliferation of so-called Hell-fire Clubs, the members of which were invariably accused by society of promoting heavy drinking, sexual license, blasphemy, and Satanism, even if reality differed considerably from club to club. The most … the Ballers, or the Mohocks, these gatherings of the well-to-do and aristocratic class were said to indulge in wild drinking, unrestrained sexuality, blasphemy, and even Satanism, providing a stark contrast to the contemporary focus on … more lurid is owed in part to the questionable reputation of its members, some of which were renowned for their heavy drinking, their quick tempers, and even murder in the case of Lord Santry (64). Stories of Satanism swiftly sprung up …
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Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… intercourse. The race week offered a wide range of ancillary attractions, from assemblies, theatres, balls, eating and drinking, to cock fighting or pugilism. Practices > Games & Sports Mots-clés Elite Gambling Horseracing Sports Women … vice, corruption and dissipation amongst the elite, while more generally racing encouraged working-class idleness, drinking, gambling and potential dishonesty. Ante-post betting on major races and high-stakes matches grew over time, … intercourse. The race week offered a wide range of ancillary attractions, from assemblies, theatres, balls, eating and drinking, to cock fighting or pugilism. … Borsay, Peter, The English Urban Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989) …
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