Club Life of London


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Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 1


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Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of literature, science, and medicine.




Dining with the Georgians


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A fascinating history of food, cooking and kitchenalia in the Georgian period, including contemporary recipes and colour illustrations and exploring how the Georgians have influenced our attitude to food today.




Club Life of London


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Reproduction of the original: Club Life of London by John Timbs




Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700-1830


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An international team of specialists examine the dynamic relation between women and the public sphere.




Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century


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London Clubland


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This work is the first to study the gentlemen's clubs that were an important feature of the Late Victorian landscape, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early 20th-century ideas about gender, power, class, and the city.




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