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London Clubland
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Author : A. Milne-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-11-15
London Clubland written by A. Milne-Smith and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-15 with History categories.
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, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early 20th-century ideas about gender, power, class, and the city.
Palaces Of Power
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Author : Stephen Hoare
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2019-08-05
Palaces Of Power written by Stephen Hoare and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-05 with History categories.
The core of what we call St James's dates from the late seventeenth century, when large estates were leased by the Crown to the landed gentry after the Restoration in 1660. St James's clubs, coffee houses and institutions have been shaped by enterprise, political conflict, and Britain's emerging role as an Imperial power. This is the historic heart of London's Clubland. Over 300 years, Clubland has extended its reach to encompass Piccadilly, Mayfair, Bond Street, Covent Garden and Westminster. Ever discreet, the clubs do not draw attention to themselves, though their members are often highly influential individuals who are leaders in politics, the law, the media and much more. Palaces of Power charts the evolution of London's Clubland, St James's, exploring the social and cultural history of the city's most prestigious district, and studying the tensions between the world of privilege and an emerging public realm over the last three centuries.
London Clubland
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Author : A. Milne-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-11-15
London Clubland written by A. Milne-Smith and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-15 with History categories.
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, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early 20th-century ideas about gender, power, class, and the city.
A Room Of His Own
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Author : Barbara Black
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-27
A Room Of His Own written by Barbara Black and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 gentlemen’s clubs that formed the exclusive preserve known as “clubland” in Victorian London—the City of Clubs that arose during the Golden Age of Clubs. Why were these associations for men only such a powerful emergent institution in nineteenth-century London? Distinctly British, how did these single-sex clubs help fashion men, foster a culture of manliness, and assist in the project of nation building? What can elite male affiliative culture tell us about nineteenth-century Britishness? A Room of His Own sheds light on the mysterious ways of male associational culture as it examines such topics as fraternity, sophistication, nostalgia, social capital, celebrity, gossip, and male professionalism. The story of clubland (and the literature it generated) begins with Britain’s military heroes home from the Napoleonic campaign and quickly turns to Dickens’s and Thackeray’s acrimonious Garrick Club Affair. It takes us to Richard Burton’s curious Cannibal Club and Winston Churchill’s The Other Club; it goes underground to consider Uranian desire and Oscar Wilde’s clubbing and resurfaces to examine the problematics of belonging in Trollope’s novels. The trespass of French socialist Flora Tristan, who cross-dressed her way into the clubs of Pall Mall, provides a brief interlude. London’s clubland—this all-important room of his own—comes to life as Barbara Black explores the literary representations of clubland and the important social and cultural work that this urban site enacts. Our present-day culture of connectivity owes much to nineteenth-century sociability and Victorian networks; clubland reveals to us our own enduring desire to belong, to construct imagined communities, and to affiliate with like-minded comrades.
From Ronnies To Ravers
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Author : Ian Snowball
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-09-30
From Ronnies To Ravers written by Ian Snowball and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-30 with London (England) categories.
Club Land London And Provincial
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Author : Joseph Hatton
language : en
Publisher: London, J.S. Virtue
Release Date : 1890
Club Land London And Provincial written by Joseph Hatton and has been published by London, J.S. Virtue this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Clubhouses categories.
Savoir Faire Savoir Vivre
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Author : Christopher McCreery
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2014-12-20
Savoir Faire Savoir Vivre written by Christopher McCreery and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-20 with History categories.
A richly illustrated history of The Rideau Club, which was founded 150 years ago by Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir George E. Cartier. A highly accessible account of the Club's history and enduring place in the nation's capital, and the story of its evolution with vignettes of how certain members made and continue to make it a very special place.
Behind Closed Doors
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Author : Seth Alexander Thévoz
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-07-28
Behind Closed Doors written by Seth Alexander Thévoz and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-28 with History categories.
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.
British Identity In World War I
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Author : Mary K. Laurents
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-12-10
British Identity In World War I written by Mary K. Laurents and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-10 with History categories.
This book analyzes the development of the Lost Generation narrative following the First World War. The author examines narratives that illustrate the fracture of upper-class identity, including well-known examples of the Lost Generation—Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Vera Brittain—as well as other less typical cases—George Mallory and JRR Tolkien—to demonstrate the effects of the First World War on British society, culture, and politics.
How Books Reading And Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland In The British Empire
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Author : Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-31
How Books Reading And Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland In The British Empire written by Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr. and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-31 with History categories.
How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subscription libraries contributed to a core and peripheral criteria of clubbability used by the "select people"—clubbable settler elite—to vet the "proper sort"—clubbable indigenous elite—as they culturally, economically and socially navigated their way towards membership in colonial clubland. As a microcosm for British-controlled areas of the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, this book assesses the history, membership, growth and collection development of three colonial subscription libraries—the Penang Library in Malaysia, the General Library of the Institute of Jamaica and the Lagos Library in Nigeria—during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This work also examines the places these libraries occupied within the lives of their subscribers, and how the British Council reorganized these colonial subscription libraries to ensure their survival and the survival of colonial clubland in a post-colonial world. This book is designed to accommodate historians of Britain and its empire who are unfamiliar with library history, library historians who are unfamiliar with British history, and book historians who are unfamiliar with both topics.