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Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]

… down. Practices > Politics & Society Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Mots-clés Women political hostess dinner Public Days race meet election canvassing chairing Sociability was intrinsic to British politics in the eighteenth-century. For Members of … (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). See also the outstanding article by Hannah Greig and Amanda Vickery that traces politicians’ movements about London and confirms this: Hannah Greig and Amanda Vickery, ‘The Political Day in …

Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]

… first proto-modern, widely-followed national sport, opens a window into wider sociability and cultural life. The annual race week created an important urban social space, involving both public and private sociability, attracting racehorse owners and gamblers; men and women; the country and towns-folk; and elite, middling and proletariat groups. The … sociability and fields of practice developing in the long eighteenth century. From the 1500s onwards some town-organised meetings already existed alongside private races on local moors, downs or floodplains. 1  Meeting numbers grew with the …

Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]

… gambling. Although there are claims that the Star and Garter was the first cricket club, it is best seen as a meeting place for noblemen and gentlemen, who were looking to organise the rules of the games, rather than as a formal … village of Newmarket because he enjoyed hunting and hawking ; his court, in particular its Scottish members, initiated races in Newmarket. Later, races developed elsewhere in the country as they provided good testing events for the breed of horses. Charles I …

Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]

… rooms across Great Britain became the physical and social heart of the community, places where men and women could meet to converse, dance, and attend lectures and concerts. Despite being associational spaces of leisure and sociability, … the Country Ladies were stewed up in their father's old Mansion Houses, and seldom saw Company but at an Assize, a Horse-Race, or a Fair’ (Borsay 151-2). 3   The proliferation of assembly rooms, particularly later in the eighteenth century … 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 by the Master of …

Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]

… in 1789. 1   1 . Historians differ over precise numbers but not by very much. See John D. Garrigus, Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue (London: Palgrave Macmillian, 2006), p. 126; Fréderic Régent, La France et … sociability occurring at all levels of Saint Domingue society. An examination of these forms reveals deep tensions over race, and these tensions would explode in 1791, when the French Revolution reached the colony, and new forms of political … the colony. ‘Deprived of the [Parisian] promenade’, one journalist wrote in 1786, ‘we have only the theatre as a public meeting point.’ 15  Despite the opening of some bookstores, coffeehouses and dance halls after the 1770s, the celebrated …

William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]

… from one levee to another. ( Mary Granville 91-92) The unsociable correspondent preferred written conversation to meetings. In an 1801 letter, he explained how he managed to cope with the afflux of visitors he had to deal with because … at several social gatherings, putting in at inns, enjoying banquets, watching a military review or attending horse races. Doctor Syntax, Rural sport (1 May 1812) by Thomas Rowlandson (1757 - 1827) taken from [W. Combe], The Tour of … into the company of misfits. While the manual insists that the young man is initially good by nature, he occasionally meets people who drive him off the right track. Among the excesses he can become a victim of lies or excessive alcohol …