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A Compleat And Humorous Account Of All The Remarkable Clubs And Societies In The Cities Of London And Westminster
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Book Synopsis British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800 by : Peter Clark
Download or read book British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800 written by Peter Clark and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern freemasonry was invented in London about 1717, but was only one of a surge of British associations in the early modern era which had originated before the English Revolution. By 1800, thousands of clubs and societies had swept the country. Recruiting widely from the urban affluent classes, mainly amongst men, they traditionally involved heavy drinking, feasting, singing, and gambling. They ranged from political, religious and scientific societies, artistic and literary clubs, to sporting societies, bee keeping, and birdfancying clubs, and a myriad of other associations.
Book Synopsis A Compleat and Humorous Account of All the Remarkable Clubs and Societies in the Cities of London and Westminster by : Clubs (LONDON)
Download or read book A Compleat and Humorous Account of All the Remarkable Clubs and Societies in the Cities of London and Westminster written by Clubs (LONDON) and published by . This book was released on 1756 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Compleat and Humorous Account of All the Remarkable Clubs and Societies in the Cities of London and Westminster by : Edward Ward
Download or read book A Compleat and Humorous Account of All the Remarkable Clubs and Societies in the Cities of London and Westminster written by Edward Ward and published by . This book was released on 1756 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Compleat and Humorous Account of All the Remarkable Clubs and Societies in the Cities of London and Westminster, from the R-l-s-y Down to the Lumber-Troop, &c by :
Download or read book A Compleat and Humorous Account of All the Remarkable Clubs and Societies in the Cities of London and Westminster, from the R-l-s-y Down to the Lumber-Troop, &c written by and published by . This book was released on 1745 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Compleat and Humorous Account of All the Remarkable Clubs and Societies in the Cities of London and Westminster, from the R--l S--y (royal Society) Down to the Lumber-troop, &c by :
Download or read book A Compleat and Humorous Account of All the Remarkable Clubs and Societies in the Cities of London and Westminster, from the R--l S--y (royal Society) Down to the Lumber-troop, &c written by and published by . This book was released on 1746 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London by : Guildhall Library (London, England)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London written by Guildhall Library (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London by : Corporation of London. Library
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London written by Corporation of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London, Instituted in the Year 1824 by : Guildhall Library (London, England)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London, Instituted in the Year 1824 written by Guildhall Library (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Palaces of Power written by Stephen Hoare and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core of what we call St James's dates from the late seventeenth century, when large estates were leased by the Crown to the landed gentry after the Restoration in 1660. St James's clubs, coffee houses and institutions have been shaped by enterprise, political conflict, and Britain's emerging role as an Imperial power. This is the historic heart of London's Clubland. Over 300 years, Clubland has extended its reach to encompass Piccadilly, Mayfair, Bond Street, Covent Garden and Westminster. Ever discreet, the clubs do not draw attention to themselves, though their members are often highly influential individuals who are leaders in politics, the law, the media and much more. Palaces of Power charts the evolution of London's Clubland, St James's, exploring the social and cultural history of the city's most prestigious district, and studying the tensions between the world of privilege and an emerging public realm over the last three centuries.
Book Synopsis Annals of the Royal Society Club by : Archibald Geikie
Download or read book Annals of the Royal Society Club written by Archibald Geikie and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1917 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Association and Enlightenment by : Mark C. Wallace
Download or read book Association and Enlightenment written by Mark C. Wallace and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to sociability. The essays in this volume examine the complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. Contributors address attitudes toward associations, their meeting places and rituals, their links with the growth of the professions and with literary culture, and the ways in which they were structured by both class and gender. By widening the context in which clubs and societies are set, the collection offers a new framework for understanding them, bringing together the inheritance of the Scottish past, the unique and cohesive polite culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.
Book Synopsis British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century by : Sharon Harrow
Download or read book British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Sharon Harrow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, literature, and culture, this collection situates sport within multiple contexts, including religion, labor, leisure time, politics, nationalism, gender, play, and science. A poetics, literature, and culture of sport swelled during the era, influencing artists such as John Collett and writers including Lord Byron, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding. This volume brings together literary scholars and historians of sport to demonstrate the ubiquity of sport to eighteenth-century life, the variety of literary and cultural representations of sporting experiences, and the evolution of sport from rural pastimes to organized, regular events of national and international importance. Each essay offers in-depth readings of both material practices and representations of sport as they relate to, among other subjects, recreational sports, the Cotswold games, clothing, women archers, tennis, celebrity athletes, and the theatricality of boxing. Taken together, the essays in this collection offer valuable multiple perspectives on reading sport during the century when sport became modern.
Book Synopsis Robert Hooke’s Contributions to Mechanics by : F. F. Centore
Download or read book Robert Hooke’s Contributions to Mechanics written by F. F. Centore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of science and philosophy and the philosophy of nature the name Robert Hooke has been largely ignored. H he is occasionally men tioned. it is usually in one of two ways: either he is briefly referred to in passing. or. he is viewed through the eyes of some later giant in the history of science and philosophy such as Sir Isaac Newton. Both approaches. however, do Hooke an injustice. In the academic world of today. there is no scholarly study available of Hooke's actual place in the history of science and philosophy with respect to his doctrines and accomplishments within the area of mechanics. Such a situation constitutes an unfortunate lacuna in the academic life of the world in our time. It is the more unfortunate because. in his time. Robert Hooke played an important role in the intellectual life of his world. Hooke. a contemporary of Boyle and Newton. lived from 1635 to 1703. For most of his active intellectual life he held the position of Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society of London. As a result of his own initi ative and of directives given him by other members of the Society. Hooke performed hundreds of experiments designed to explore the secrets of na ture so that men might better understand God's creation. In this treatise I will disengage from the large disorganized welter of monographs and trea tises left by Hooke all the material pertinent to the science of mechanics.
Book Synopsis Space and Self in Early Modern European Cultures by : David Warren Sabean
Download or read book Space and Self in Early Modern European Cultures written by David Warren Sabean and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of 'selfhood' conjures up images of self-sufficiency, integrity, introspectiveness, and autonomy characteristics typically associated with 'modernity.' The seventeenth century marks the crucial transition to a new form of 'bourgeois' selfhood, although the concept goes back to the pre-modern and early modern period. A richly interdisciplinary collection, Space and Self integrates perspectives from history, history of literature, and history of art to link the issue of selfhood to the new and vital literature on space. As Space and Self shows, there have at all times been multiple paths and alternative possibilities for forming identities, marking personhood, and experiencing life as a concrete, singular individual. Positioning self and space as specific and evolving constructs, a diverse group of contributors explore how persons become embodied in particular places or inscribed in concrete space. Space and Self thus sets the terms for current discussion of these topics and provides new approaches to studying their cultural specificity.
Book Synopsis Men of Letters and the English Public in the 18th Century by : Alexandre Beljame
Download or read book Men of Letters and the English Public in the 18th Century written by Alexandre Beljame and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume VI of nine in collection on Historical Sociology. Originally published in 1948, volume includes the writings of John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Joseph Addison from 1660 to 1744.
Book Synopsis Effeminate Years by : Declan Kavanagh
Download or read book Effeminate Years written by Declan Kavanagh and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain investigates the gendered, eroticized, and xenophobic ways in which the controversies in the 1760s surrounding the political figure John Wilkes (1725-97) legitimated some men as political subjects, while forcefully excluding others on the basis of their perceived effeminacy or foreignness. However, this book is not a literary analysis of the Wilkes affair in the 1760s, nor is it a linear account of Wilkes’s political career. Instead, Effeminate Years examines the cultural crisis of effeminacy that made Wilkes’s politicking so appealing. The central theoretical problem that this study addresses is the argument about what is and is not political: where does individual autonomy begin and end? Addressing this question, Kavanagh traces the shaping influence of the discourse of effeminacy in the literature that was generated by Wilkes’s legal and sexual scandals, while, at the same time, he also reads Wilkes’s spectacular drumming up of support as a timely exploitation of the broader cultural crisis of effeminacy during the mid century in Britain. The book begins with the scandals and agitations surrounding Wilkes, and ends with readings of Edmund Burke’s (1729-1797) earliest political writings, which envisage political community—a vision, that Kavanagh argues, is influenced by Wilkes and the effeminate years of the 1760s. Throughout, Kavanagh shows how interlocutors in the political and cultural debates of the mid-eighteenth-century period in Britain, such as Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) and Arthur Murphy (1727-1805), attempt to resolve the problem of effeminate excess. In part, the resolution for Wilkes and Charles Churchill (1731-1764) was to shunt effeminacy onto the sexually non-normative. On the other hand, Burke, in his aesthetic theorization of the beautiful privileges the socially constitutive affects of feeling effeminate. Through an analysis of poetry, fiction, social and economic pamphlets, aesthetic treatises, journalism and correspondences, placed within the latest queer historiography, Kavanagh demonstrates that the mid-century effeminacy crisis served to re-conceive male heterosexuality as the very mark of political legitimacy. Overall, Effeminate Years explores the development of modern ideas of masculinity and the political subject, which are still the basis of debate and argument in our own time.
