… of sociability and even festivity, in person and in print; but they could also generate unsociability in the form of
drunkenness, hostility, bitter partisanship and even violence that many commentators saw as impolite and damaging to the political and social culture. Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés elections Politeness impoliteness
drunkenness Violence Print culture feasting partisanship Parliamentary elections were the sites of both polite … for government-favoured candidates. The more puritanically-minded also saw such entertainments as debauched bouts of
drunkenness. In 1696 a disgusted John Evelyn expressed dismay at the ‘confus’d, debauch’d and riotous manner of electing …