This paper examines how the gentlemen's club was a space for facilitating business
activities in the literary publishing industry of Victorian Britain. These clubs served to blur the …

In 1888 The Society Herald described the typical day of a young bachelor:“He breakfasts,
lunches, dines, and sups at the club. He is always at billiards, which he doesn't understand …

In nineteenth-century London, a clubbable man was a fortunate man, indeed. The Reform,
the Athenaeum, the Travellers, the Carlton, the United Service are just a few of the …

This essay examines mid-nineteenth century compositors' and bookbinders' trade union
journals and their presentation of gendered workplaces: the male world of the skilled …

This work is the first to study the gentlemen's clubs that were an important feature of the Late
Victorian landscape, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world …

This book explores the business practices of the British publishing industry from 1843-1900,
discussing the role of creative businesses in society and the close relationship between …

In 2004, we were sitting in a conference room during the annual Management and
Organisation History Workshop, and suddenly realized that we were the only women …

By 1960, there were more than 3,500 working men's clubs in Britain, with a combined
membership of more than two million people. This article explores their post-war …

Abstract The University of Manchester: Alexandra Mitchell: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Middle-Class Masculinity in Clubs and Associations: Manchester and Liverpool, 1800 …

In addressing the urgent need for business historians to think about enhancing their
relationships with practitioners, we advocate what we term a'Practical Turn'(as opposed to …