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… Image John James Baker, 'The Whig Junto', Tate, T15046, 1710. Image William Hogarth, 'An Election Entertainment, from the series known as 'The Humours of an Election', Wikimedia Commons, 1755.  Résumé Parliamentary elections were the sites of both polite sociability and impolite, divisive, abusive and highly unsociable behaviour. As …

… Image Joseph Josiah Dodd and Charles Tattershall Dodd, ‘View of Tonbridge During the Late Election, after 1832’, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1977.14.20189, after 1832. Résumé … 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 Dining Elections Public sphere Tories Whigs Women Sociability was intrinsic to British politics in the eighteenth-century. For …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… to secure protections and patronage from influential aristocrats, vie for official positions, and even campaign for election to the academies . At Madame Geoffrin’s Monday salon for artists, ‘Les gens du monde admis dans cette société, y … ‘antechamber’ to the French Academy, where the philosophes could strategically select candidates and campaign for their election; indeed, from 1767 to 1776, eight philosophes were elected to the French Academy, all regular attendees of …

… were a popular mode for the satirising of current affairs or the lampooning of political figures, especially during election periods. These were usually initially published as fugitive pieces in periodicals but several were later printed … section’). COVENT-GARDEN By Command of their Majesties This Day will be presented (Not acted these Three years) FREE ELECTION, A Farce Old Obstinate, by Mr King, Admiral Broadside (first court candidate) Lord Hood. Judas, (second court …