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… and gentlewomen rubbed shoulders with hawkers, paupers and a varied cast of social inferiors.  The streets demanded new rules of behaviour, new ‘rules of the road’. By reference to the practice of everyday life, the evolution of literary representations of street … the street as a uniquely complex site of social exchange and sociability. Places > Cities Mots-clés Crime Streets Rules Women In eighteenth-century British towns, almost everyone was a pedestrian.  It was on the street that gentlemen …

… Image James Gillray, ‘Mendoza’, Met Museum, 66.683.9, 1788. Image Jack Broughton, Rules to Be Observed on All Battles of the Stage, 1743. Image C.R. Ryley, 'Daniel Mendoza & Richard Humphreys', United … a disciplined violence useful to maintain a pugilistic spirit in times of peace. Practices > Games & Sports Mots-clés Rules Sports The popularity of boxing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is attested by the great … the confusion of social classes, the middling-class mixing with the rank-and-file.   Boxing as an art & a science The rules of prizefighting The growing popularity of boxing in the mid-eighteenth century coincided with a global movement to …

… Philadelphia Dancing Assembly a desideratum. Founded in 1749, the Assembly thrived, even into the early Federal period. Rules governing all aspects of participation, including the dancing itself, sustained the Assembly’s role in determining … Philadelphia Assembly more strictly than those of London or Bath, governing its meetings, management, tickets, and more. Rules were occasionally reinforced, perhaps to bolster managers’ authority against more democratic portions of the young … century; rather, attendees ‘moved with measured dignity in grave minuets or gayer country dances.’ 7   Assembly rules required that each set, formed in order of dancers’ arrival, have ten couples; if a set came up short, its couples …

… lines, a sparing use of colours other than black and white, and little ornament, but he also created eagerly absorbed rules about comportment in society. The fascination with the historical Brummell also led to numerous, … In Regency London, a few hundred families belonged to good society, following its often very elaborate formal rules. By questioning hierarchies while assuming a position of power, Brummell was playing a paradox game. Despite his … comically point at a lack of style, comportment, or judgement. Brummell simultaneously played with and inverted the rules of polite conversation: he implicitly demanded verbal precision, brevity, and style, but used others’ errors or …