'Only Connect'
'Only Connect'

Author: William C. Lubenow

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1783270462

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In nineteenth-century Britain, learned societies and clubs became contested sites in which a new kind of identity was created: the charisma and persona of the scholar, of the intellectual.

British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800
British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800

Author: Peter Clark

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2000-01-06

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 0191542164

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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.