Index
Articles are centred around several distinct strands, so the below contains links to the main pieces, sorted by theme.
Guides to clubs by region
Edinburgh, UK | Havana, Cuba [video] | India [video] | Islands of the Pacific | Lisbon, Portugal | Paris, France | Porto, Portugal | Romandy, Switzerland | Washington DC, USA
Lost clubs
The former buildings of the Carlton Club (1832-1940) | The former clubhouse of the City University Club (1895-2017) | City Carlton Club (1869-1940) | City Liberal Club (1874-1921) | Crockford’s (1823-1846) | Junior Carlton Club (1864-1977) | Naval Club (1919-2021) | Whitehall Club (1866-1920)
Club management
Clubonomics: Could a small club like Blades survive? | Curating a reciprocals list | Implications of the Garrick Club’s legal advice | “Interview with Matthew Rivett, Secretary of the Oriental Club“ | Vetting candidates for club membership | What is the “right” size for a club?
Clubs in literature
The Bellona Club and Lord Peter Wimsey | Blades in the James Bond novels | The Diogenes Club in the Sherlock Holmes stories | The Mystery of Doctor Watson’s Club
Clubs in film and television
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) | The Man Who Never Was (1956) | Vertigo (1958) | Alfred Hitchcock Presents - ‘Specialty of the House’ (1959) | Barry Lyndon (1975) | Jeeves & Wooster (1990-3)
Essays and one-off features
Did Rhodesia’s Salisbury Club prop up the Ian Smith regime? | Donald Trump and Mar-a-Lago | Good Chaps: The Rise and Fall of an Idea in Clubland | Harold Macmillan’s first Carlton Lecture (1982) | Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs🔒 | Post-Napoleonic clubs | Winston Churchill and His Clubs 🔒 | Everything you wanted to know about the Clubland Substack (but were afraid to ask…)
The Clubland Database
Africa 🔒 | Asia 🔒 | Central America 🔒 | Europe 🔒 | Middle East 🔒 | North America | Oceania 🔒 | South America 🔒
News
London women’s club AllBright enters administration | Groucho Club to reopen | Soho House Group leadership supports sale of chain
News round-ups
February 2025 | January 2025 | December 2024 | November 2024 | August 2024
Books
London Clubland bibliography | Christmas 2024 reading list | New book forthcoming | Updated paperback edition of ‘Behind Closed Doors’ | Where to find scarce club histories