The Society for the Reformation of Manners was founded in the Tower Hamlets area of London in 1691. Its aims were the suppression of profanity, immorality...
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The Reformation of Manners was an ideological drive to bring religious discipline to English parishes between the late 1600s and the early 1700s, and later...
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successor to the 18th-century Society for the Reformation of Manners, and continued to function until 1885. The Society was founded by William Wilberforce...
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Glory hole (category Sexuality and society)
could lead to arrests by members of the Society for the Reformation of Manners. Often the authorities would wait outside the Lincoln's Inn bog house in London...
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Molly house (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
with the reduced charge of assault with sodomitical intent. From the late 1690s to the early 1710s, the Societies for the Reformation of Manners (organizations...
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Margaret Clap (category LGBT history in the United Kingdom)
was raided by the police; around 40 of its occupants were arrested. Primarily targeted by the Society for the Reformation of Manners, the house had been...
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Drama (redirect from Dramatic society)
Revolution of 1688, William's and Mary's dislike of the theatre, and the lawsuits brought against playwrights by the Society for the Reformation of Manners (founded...
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In the rhetoric of the presentment, Mandeville saw the influence of the Society for the Reformation of Manners. The book was also denounced in the London...
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esteem and regard for a young man without it being criminal." 1698 - Agent provocateurs from the Society for the Reformation of Manners were sometimes used...
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houses, with the publication of pamphlets such as The Sodomites' Shame and Doom, and groups such as the Society for the Reformation of Manners attempting...
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