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Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… not one to which everyone subscribed. People > Commerce People > Art and Literature Mots-clés ward Satire humour Tavern drunkenness impoliteness Club London Edward ‘Ned’ Ward was a satirist and tavern keeper, most widely recognised as the … ideal of polite and decorous sociability was not one to which everyone subscribed. … ward … Satire … humour … Tavern … drunkenness … impoliteness … Club … London … Ned Ward …Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… But the Case is very different with these inferior Masquerades; for these are indeed no other than the Temples of Drunkenness, Lewdness, and all Kind of Debauchery. 2 As Terry Castle notes, mentions of masquerades for the lower classes …Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… , advised readers to aim for goodwill, sincerity and honesty in conversation in society, and to avoid disputation, drunkenness, coarseness, and lewd language. The link to middling-sort lives and values as explored by Margaret Hunt was …Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… 10 Others, such as Peter Clark, assert that ‘despite their various rituals, [they] were probably more concerned with drunkenness than irreligion’. 11 Whether myth or reality, Wharton’s alleged club proved short-lived, and an Irish group …Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… The gin palace was like a machine which enabled people to get drunk in industrial quantities. A Select Committee on Drunkenness , set up by Sheffield MP James Silk Buckingham, heard testimony to this effect in the summer of 1834. And …Pagination
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