Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… institutions in London and provincial cities, catering for the taste for public debate among the lower and middling sorts. Topics could be frivolous, but when societies debated politics, religion, and the economy they were felt to voice … Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Advertisement Clubs Debate Eloquence Gender Middling sort North America Politics Public sphere Debating societies were commercial ventures that provided the middling …
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