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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… A place of unruly, licentious behaviour in the seventeenth century, it became a centre of mixed sex sociability, ranking just behind London, as a beacon of new social interaction. A city which started as a market town 5 evolved into a … to the shaping of the nation, so much so that it exported some of the attributes of spa sociability to the rest of the kingdom and beyond, in an age nicknamed the ‘age of watering-places.’ 6 Taking the Bath waters In the eighteenth century, taking the waters did not simply mean bathing but it also involved …
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Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Leisure North America Spa Travel The spa was an important location for eighteenth-century sociability, operating as a kind of open space where the ordinary rules regulating regional and class differences might be suspended, at least in … norms might be bent, although not expressly broken, allowing for a social scene in which to see and be seen was key, seeking out relationships and connections with one’s peers or even ‘social betters’ if one might dare. This was a … in nearly all spas deserving of the name in the long eighteenth century and took place on a stage set with strikingly similar elements: a pump room where the salubrious mineral waters might be taken and bathing facilities, shared …
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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… as visitors were particularly struck by the novelty of its Palladian architecture and simultaneously by its ground-breaking organization of leisure. A similar yet distinct pattern can be observed in the German spa of Pyrmont, where the … and health: spa medicine and openness Bath started to innovate at an early stage through the nature of the cure. Taking the waters was no longer principally associated with bathing, but it also involved drinking them, as recommended by Dr John Jones in The Bathes of Bathes Ayde (1572) and Dr William Oliver in A Practical …
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