BRITISH CONSERVATISM AND THE PRIMROSE LEAGUE ... - ideals

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An Entertainment Committee was also in the process of
formation. Its significance was twofold. The Committee was conceived
by the LGC and reflected the Dames' growing initiative.
Its functions
were to provide a general clearinghouse of names of female and male
members willing to address local meetings and to suggest social groups
available to perform at League functions. 72
The Committee was a
natural extension of the Grand Council proposal made in 1886 that the
LGC provide limited assistance to poor Habitations through a series of
special events functions.
It underscored the role of entertainment as
a political
function for recruitment.
By 1888, then, the Primrose League had assumed the essential
features of its organizational development.
Much would change in the
ensuing twelve years, but the fundamental
pattern of development
remained intact.
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Ibid., 19 October 1888; 9 November 1888; 23 November 1888.