The conclusion draws together these different levels of analysis – language and discourse; sociability and equality; and music and movement – to underscore that between them they reproduced a radical culture that was hugely intellectually ambitious, but rooted in sets of beliefs, relationships, practices and experiences that pulled in a very much more conformist direction and that worked to undermine the radical literary culture of wartime London, at the same time as loyalist and government forces further curtailed the scope for individual liberty and deliberative activity.