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A wonderful list of very tempting volumes. I just need the ability to enter a club name - the Savile springs to mind for some reason! - and see which books it features in!

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As far as I know, the Savile’s own histories (which you’ll doubtless already be aware of) are:

Anonymous, The Savile Club, 1868 to 1923 (London: Savile Club, 1923).

Anonymous, The Savile Club, 1868–1958 (London: Savile Club, 1957).

Garrett Anderson, Hang Your Halo in the Hall: A History of the Savile Club (London: Savile Club, 1993).

Monja Danischewsky, The Savile Club, 1868–1968 (London: Savile Club, 1968).

Robert J. D. Harding, ‘Founders of the Savile Club (act. 1868–1872)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).

Patricia Reed, A Brief History of No. 69 and 71 Brook Street, Mayfair (London: Savile Club, 2009).

Sesquicentennial series:

Ken Allen and Robert J. D. Harding (eds), Michael Boulter and Neville Punchard, The Savile Club Scientists (London: Savile Club, 2019).

Michael Bloch, Guide to the Savile Monument (London, Savile Club, 2018).

Robert J. D. Harding (ed.), Suggestions’ Books: A Selection of Entries, 1869–1969 (London, Savile Club, 2018).

—, The Savile Club 1914–1918 War Memorial (London, Savile Club, 2018).

—, A Sesquicentennial Miscellany (London, Savile Club, 2019).

—, The Savile Club 1939–1945 War Memorial (London, Savile Club, 2023).

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Good that you've seen the 1939-45 War Memorial volume as that only came out last year.

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