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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 …

… 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 …

… Image 'Success to William's Plumpers', 1761, The British Museum, 1959,0402.1. An election mug of 1761, from Liverpool, where Sir William Meredith sought the ‘plumpers’ who would caste only one of their … the Art to Know Men (London, 1698), p. 132. 'Success to William's Plumpers', 1761, The British Museum , 1959,0402.1. An election mug of 1761, from Liverpool, where Sir William Meredith sought the ‘plumpers’ who would caste only one of their …

… 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 …