Seth Thévoz
Contributor at Freelance
Writer at Seth Thévoz’s Clubland Substack
Historian, writer, immigrant, FRHistS, right eyebrow raiser; UK political finance & Clubland; https://t.co/GytvIBMzR6; https://t.co/Im4uJcOY7x
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6 days ago |
clubland.substack.com | Seth Thévoz
While Bertie Wooster’s Drones Club is best-identified with P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories - and also links many characters in the Wodehouse canon - it is far from being the only club in the canon. Jeeves himself belongs to a Mayfair establishment, the Junior Ganymede Club, for gentlemen’s personal gentlemen - and it plays a key role in the plot of three novels.
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1 week ago |
clubland.substack.com | Seth Thévoz
This is a real gem: ‘Members Only’ is a 1965 colour newsreel looking at London private members’ clubs, as part of the Rank Organisation’s Look at Life series of film shorts, screened in cinemas before main features. ‘Look at Life: Members Only’ (1965). Click on the above image to play the video. Seth Thévoz’s Clubland Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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1 week ago |
clubland.substack.com | Seth Thévoz
IntroIn its late-Victorian and Edwardian heyday, the Empress Club was Mayfair’s premiere ladies’ social club, offering opulent facilities for independent-minded women. But it was rocked by repeated scandals and other difficulties, including suicide, bankruptcy, and fire, and it ended up becoming one of many Clubland casualties of the 1950s. The former Empress Club building today. (Photo credit: Collins Construction website.)Seth Thévoz’s Clubland Substack is a reader-supported publication.
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2 weeks ago |
clubland.substack.com | Seth Thévoz
Cast your mind back 43 years. It was the summer of 1982, and most of London’s clubs were in the doldrums. In few areas was this more obvious than in their food offering.
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2 weeks ago |
clubland.substack.com | Seth Thévoz
George MacDonald Fraser’s best-selling Flashman novels - known as ‘The Flashman Papers’ (1969-2005) - followed the misadventures of its anti-hero across various 19th century wars. Unsurprisingly, the fictional Brigadier-General Sir Harry Flashman (1822-1915) found himself in quite a few private members’ clubs.
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Pleasantly surprised to find out that the Clubland Substack now ranks as the 79th fastest-growing Substack for "Culture."
The second of the Clubland Substack’a deep dives for the Bank Holiday weekend: a detailed look at how clubs were portrayed in the witty, bawdy, outrageous cartoons of the great James Gillray. https://t.co/qrtMV4WKmE https://t.co/BAdmklgdjj
Have you ever wondered about Jeeves’s mysterious club, the Junior Ganymede, in P. G. Wodehouse’s books? Here’s all you ever wanted to know about it - and more. https://t.co/gq5nhUrcof https://t.co/ILAwIp5hxU
