Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… 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 were constructed in a … on newspapers and assembly room records (151, 336-49). The germination of assembly rooms maps onto the ferment of urban entertainments that was brewing between 1688 and 1722, as John Macky observed in 1722 that, ‘ These assemblies are very … conversation, gallantry, news, and play’. 5 The assembly rooms were spaces for balls, concerts, card parties, and other entertainments in which any ‘polite’ community could gather. By 1795, the word ‘assembly’ was specifically linked with …
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