Behind Closed Doors

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 dec 2022

London's Clubland had reached its height in the twenty years leading up to the First World War. Some 400 'elite' clubs were found on or off Pall Mall and Piccadilly, and assorted major clubs were in every Central London district, including Bloomsbury, Holborn, Kensington and Waterloo. Innumerable thousands of working men's clubs dotted the country, and hundreds of 'elite' clubs worldwide consciously imitated the grand clubs of Pall Mall. The pinnacle of London Clubland was the city's largest ever clubhouse, the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) ...

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'A fascinating forensic study of the period's networks of power'
Ian Hislop, Private Eye

'Thévoz has undertaken the most comprehensive and rational analysis of the part clubs played and how they were enabled to do so'
Journal of Liberal History

'Magisterial'
Professor Sunny Singh

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472146465
ISBN-10: 1472146468
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 160 x 236 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group

Notă biografică

Dr Seth Alexander Thévoz is a freelance historian and journalist. He holds degrees from the Universities of Cambridge, London and Warwick, and is a former research associate of the History of Parliament Trust and Nuffield College, Oxford. He has variously been shortlisted for the Whitfield Prize for his first book, Club Government, and a British Journalism Award for his investigative work with openDemocracy. Since 2013, he has been Librarian of the National Liberal Club in London. He has been known to contribute to Private Eye in some capacity or another, allegedly.
http://www.sethalexanderthevoz.com/

Descriere

A look inside the hidden world of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present. If we think of these clubs as predominantly white, male and aristocratic, we could not be more wrong. Their true story is infinitely more interesting.

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