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Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]

… Résumé Parliamentary elections were the sites of both polite sociability and impolite, divisive, abusive and highly unsociable behaviour. As moments of intense social interaction between parties, candidates and electors, elections could be significant sites of sociability and even festivity, in person and in print; but they could also … 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 …

Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]

… sociability and its place in political culture becomes very apparent when considering what could happen when issues or election campaigns became so divisive that sociability broke down. Practices > Politics & Society 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 … this networking, solicitation, manoeuvring, and negotiation — be it about policy or patronage, factional alliances, or elections — took place in mixed-sex social arenas that included women, or were hosted by women. 2   1 . Elaine Chalus, …

Covent Garden [ Institutions ]

… actors, traders, writers and prostitutes. Covent Garden was also the place where the rowdy hustings for the Westminster elections occurred, inspiring many satirical artists. Places > Institutions Mots-clés Theatre Prostitution Popular … (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), chapter 2. Covent Garden was the site for the hustings in the fractious parliamentary elections for the borough constituency of Westminster. Westminster had a broad franchise for the eighteenth century – the … and disseminated via a succession of satirical prints dating from at least 1741, an early example of a hotly contested election, overturned following the involvement of troops and evidence of bribery. The Dukes of Bedford had a strong …

Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]

… promoted the spaciousness of the building which could seat 160 guests for dinner, and be opened up ‘when required for Election Balls or large Entertainments’. 2   Over the course of the long eighteenth century, purpose-built assembly rooms … of Master of Ceremonies was an elected office, as the Master of Ceremonies or Lady Directress usually campaigned for election upon the death or retirement of the previous leader. William Wade was one of the Masters of Ceremonies at Bath’s … Room Activities Balls dominated the assembly rooms’ social calendar with dance events specifically held surrounding elections, assizes, fairs, races, markets, royal birthdays, and militia encampments. Dancing was organised and regulated …

William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]

… also brought him closer to Lord Lonsdale, an important figure of Toryism in the north-west of England.  In the general election of 1818, when the radical Henry Brougham contested Westmorland, the Lowthers’ political stronghold, Wordsworth began electioneering strenuously to defend the Lowthers’ influence. He canvassed in person, helped set up a pro-Lowther … to the Freeholders of Westmorland  (1818). The stakes, Wordsworth believed, were much higher than those of a local election, as he thought the political fate of the country was being played out in his county. In his opinion, Brougham …

Vestries [ Religious Belief ]

… rather than a revolutionary lower sort) in the early seventeenth century but eventually fell in 1730, after which elections of officials reverted to an ‘open poll’. 12  As an eighteenth-century parish history explains: 6 . Julia F. … around Dublin, Anglican vestries ran two parallel strands: Protestants only attended the Easter meetings held for the election of churchwardens, while members of the Catholic majority participated in some local government business. 16 … minutes of St Helena, South Carolina, we find the usual mix of construction expenses, purchases of church ornaments and elections of officials (with quite a few refusals to serve), supplemented by a protracted lay campaign to get rid of an …