Smoking concert
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Smoking concerts were live performances, usually of music, before an audience of men only, popular during the Victorian era. Smoking concerts emerged in the 1860s as private entertainment organised by
A ticket to a smoking concert held at the Bell Inn, Lydbrook in the Forest of Dean, UK
University of Cambridge
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The University of Cambridge is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world
Smoking concert
…from women. Although the concerts are now obsolete, the term continued and is used for student-organised variety performances, especially at Oxford and Cambridge. Annual smoking concerts were held at Imperial College London into the 1980s and continue at Glasgow University Union. The saying "Booking for smoking…
Peterhouse, Cambridge's first college, founded in 1284
Emmanuel College Chapel
Selwyn College, founded in 1882
Newnham College, one of two colleges at the university which only admit female students