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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 …
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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 …
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Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
Blasphemy | Clubs | Masculinity | Sex
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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 …
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Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]
Community | Conviviality | Hilarity | Politics | Song | Toasting
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Portable directories [ Print culture ]
… the rise of a public debate about the elites and their moral shortcomings. Adultery, prostitution, excessive gambling, drunkenness: there is a considerable amount of prints dedicated to the dark side of aristocratic sociability. 13 A few …
Collecting | Elite | Merchants | Politeness | Rank
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