British History
The English gentleman cuts across rigid class boundaries; the art of walking the city streets is open to all; the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens commercialised and eroticised the urban leisure industry…. For more about the special qualities of life in Georgian and Victorian Britain, please check the essays under the following sectional headings. Since the classifications unavoidably overlap, it may be worth searching for material under more than one heading.
Check these essays …
3.1 LONG EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY OVERVIEWS
3.2 SOCIETY & CULTURE
3.3 TOWN LIFE
3.4 ELECTORAL HISTORY
3.5 RADICAL POETS
3.6 THE PROFESSIONS
3.7 RELIGION & IRRELIGION
Penelope J. Corfield
Penelope J. Corfield is a historian, lecturer and education consultant. She currently serves as the President of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS).
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