Author: Royal Empire Society. Library
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 1102
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 718
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)
Publisher:
Published: 1889
Total Pages: 1154
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Library
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 526
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Seth Alexander Thévoz
Publisher: Robinson
Published: 2022-07-28
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 147214645X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thévoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. In doing so he looks at cultural and political developments beyond the clubs, revealing how while the clubs may have been products of their city and country, they also exerted significant influence on London, Britain and places far beyond. This is a chronicle, as informative as it is entertaining, of the ups and downs of London clubland, and how it had an impact on parts of the world far from London. It is packed with amusing anecdotes and illustrative examples of the growth of this quirky, unique institution, which grew to spread around the world. London, though, with its four hundred clubs, was always at its heart. Thévoz reveals how everything we might have thought we knew about these clubs is wrong. They may have started out as white, male, aristocratic watering holes - but that's only part of the story. All sections of society built their own clubs and lived their lives there: highbrow and lowbrow; women and men; working-class, middle-class and upper-class; international and British. The club has been central to a distinctively British form of leisure over more than three centuries. Behind Closed Doors is a distillation of a decade of research and writing on London clubs, based on exclusive behind-the-scenes access to archives and proceedings, as well as a love of gossip and scandal.
Author: Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain). Library
Publisher: London : The Institute
Published: 1901
Total Pages: 1084
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 984
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