The Devonshire Club--and "Crockford's,"
Author: Henry Turner Waddy
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 190
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Author: Henry Turner Waddy
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 190
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Turner 1863-1926 Waddy
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Published: 2016-08-25
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781361811023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Turner Waddy
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Published: 2015-08-08
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781332415670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Devonshire Club and Crockford's About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Seth Alexander Thévoz
Publisher: Robinson
Published: 2022-07-28
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 147214645X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith 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: Devonshire Club
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Published: 1943
Total Pages: 55
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Seth Alexander Thevoz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-03-30
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1786733722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book phenomenon of `Club Government' in the mid-nineteenth century, when many of the functions of government were alleged to have taken place behind closed doors, in the secretive clubs of London's St. James's district, has not been adequately historicized. Despite `Club Government' being referenced in most major political histories of the period, it is a topic which has never before enjoyed a full-length study. Making use of previously-sealed club archives, and adopting a broad range of analytical techniques, this work of political history, social history, sociology and quantitative approaches to history seeks to deepen our understanding of the distinctive and novel ways in which British political culture evolved in this period. The book concludes that historians have hugely underestimated the extent of club influence on `high politics' in Westminster, and though the reputation of clubs for intervening in elections was exaggerated, the culture and secrecy involved in gentleman's clubs had a huge impact on Britain and the British Empire.
Author: Jane Rendell
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-07-15
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0567405362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pursuit of Pleasure presents the figures of the rambler and the cyprian, the Eighteenth Century precursors to the Parisian flGneur and prostitute. The urban spaces traced by these figures were the clubs, sporting venues, operas, assembly rooms, streets and arcades of central London.Drawing on critical theory, geography and philosophy, The Pursuit of Pleasure extends and critiques the discipline of architectural history from a feminist perspective. The gendering of public space is considered to be a complex and shifting series of moves and looks between men and women, constructed and represented through spatial and social relations of consumption, display and exchange.Illustrated with contemporary prints and drawings, The Pursuit of Pleasure is an extraordinarily rich analysis of the gendered issues of public space at the birth of the modern metropolis.
Author: Edwin Beresford Chancellor
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 248
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