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Vauxhall, Sex & Entertainment: The Invention of the Urban Pleasure Garden

This event has finished Took place on: Tuesday, 23rd Mar 2021

 £5

This is an online video event, please check the organiser for details about how to watch.

This illustrated lecture will analyse the social dynamics of London’s most popular and celebrated Pleasure Garden in Vauxhall, which flourished between 1732 and its final closure in 1859. It pioneered the commercialisation of mass entertainment and the eroticisation of the leisure industry. In other words, it blended timeless human interests in sex and good company with the allure of celebrity culture plus the provision of a great range of leisure services in an organised and inclusive style. No wonder that countless similar urban Gardens across Britain, in Paris and, eventually, in cities around the world, were named after Vauxhall.

Penelope J. Corfield is an expert on Georgian urban, social and cultural history; and is currently researching the dynamics of inter-personal greetings in the long eighteenth century. She is Professor Emeritus at Royal Holloway, London University; Research Fellow at Newcastle University; and President of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

The talks starts at 6.30pm. Joining details will be sent to attendees the day before.


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This event has finished Took place on: Tuesday, 23rd Mar 2021

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2021-03-23 2021-03-23 Europe/London Vauxhall, Sex & Entertainment: The Invention of the Urban Pleasure Garden This illustrated lecture will analyse the social dynamics of London’s most popular and celebrated Pleasure Garden in Vauxhall. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2021/03/23/vauxhall-sex-entertainment-the-invention-of-the-urban-pleasure-garden-251651 ,,,

This is an online video event, please check the organiser for details about how to watch.

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