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 …

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 …

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 …

Gossip is not only a guilty pleasure; it is also an important tool of social control. Nowhere is
this more evident than in the nineteenth‐century gentlemen's clubs of London. This article …

The book phenomenon ofClub Government'in the mid-nineteenth century, when many of the
functions of government were alleged to have taken place behind closed doors, in the …

" Cavaliers, Clubs, and Literary Culture is centered around the lives and poetry of Sir John
Mennes (a naval officer) and his friend James Smith (a debauched cleric) in Stuart and …

As many scholars have recently noted, young men who came of age in England at the end
of the nineteenth century did so as the very nature of masculinity was being contested in …

Many long-held assumptions of historians and literary critics are sharply challenged in this
interpretation of the cultural consequences of social, economic, and political change in early …

The tavern is widely acknowledged as central to the cultural and political life of Britain, yet
widely misunderstood. Ian Newman provides the first sustained account of one of the …

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of Court and fashionable
London taverns developed a culture of clubbing, urban sociability and wit. The convivial …