Bath and Beyond: The Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Assembly Room - Paperback
Bath and Beyond: The Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Assembly Room - Paperback
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by Hillary Burlock (Editor), Robin Eagles (Editor), Tatjana Leboff (Editor)
This book re-examines spa and assembly culture as key venues for sociability in the eighteenth century.
Author Biography
Dr Hillary Burlock is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Liverpool, working on a project on British assembly rooms, and a historian of eighteenth-century dance and sociability, with interests in politics, embodiment, and performance. She previously worked on the Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture project and publications include 'Party Politics: Dancing in London's West End, 1780-9' (2021).
Dr Robin Eagles is the Editor of the House of Lords 1660-1832 section at the History of Parliament, whose research interests include the history of Parliament from the late seventeenth to the close of the eighteenth century; the old Palace of Westminster; Frederick, Prince of Wales and the development of opposition politics at Leicester House; John Wilkes. Publications include Champion of English Freedom: the life of John Wilkes, MP and Lord Mayor of London, 1725-1797 (2024).
Tatjana LeBoff is the Project Curator at the Bath Assembly Rooms for the National Trust and is working on a new visitor experience at the Bath Assembly Rooms which will bring to life the Georgian heyday of the Rooms. Research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century social history, as well as considering how curatorial practice can weave together heritage, social history, and contemporary arts and programming.
