Journal article
Lottery adventuring in Britain, c.1710-1760
- Abstract:
- The state lottery in eighteenth-century Britain was mostly a striking success, bringing in ready money to the Treasury, supporting public borrowing, and rapidly attracting a wide spectrum of investors—or ‘adventurers’, as they were known. This article explores the reasons behind this success, but also seeks to understand the character and nature of lottery adventuring. To this end, it exploits various pieces of data about lottery ticket purchasers, focusing firstly on the Queen Anne lotteries of 1710–14, and then several lotteries from the early Hanoverian period. Lotteries were often portrayed simply as symptoms of a supposed contemporary ‘gambling mania’. This article presents a more complicated picture of a lottery marketplace that was driven by both rational calculation and fantasy.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1093/ehr/cey082
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- English Historical Review More from this journal
- Volume:
- 133
- Issue:
- 561
- Pages:
- 284–322
- Publication date:
- 2018-05-02
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-06-28
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1477-4534
- ISSN:
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0013-8266
- Language:
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English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:831917
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uuid:053e65bc-7909-4acf-ac6c-65e88fedaf86
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pubs:831917
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831917
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2018-03-28
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- Copyright holder:
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Rights statement:
- © Oxford University Press 2018.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Oxford University Press at https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cey082
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