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

Bangalore, India | China | Eastern Europe | Edinburgh, UK | Havana, Cuba [video] | India [video lecture] | Islands of the Pacific | Lisbon, Portugal | Madrid, Spain | Paris, France | Porto, Portugal | Romandy, Switzerland | Tokyo, Japan | Vienna, Austria | Washington DC, USA

Historical spotlights

14th October 1940: The night the Carlton Club was bombed | The “Aristocratic embrace”? The Labour Party and London clubs | Did Rhodesia’s Salisbury Club prop up the Ian Smith regime? | From the archives: Inside Annabel’s in 1980 [video] | Harold Macmillan’s first Carlton Lecture (1982) [video] | Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs 🔒 | Post-Napoleonic clubs | When Westminster took on Clubland’s kitchens | Winston Churchill and His Clubs 🔒

Lost clubs

American Club (1918-1990) | The former buildings of the Carlton Club (1832-1940) | City Carlton Club (1869-1940) | City Liberal Club (1874-1921) | The former clubhouse of the City University Club (1895-2017) | Constitutional Club (1883-1979) | Crockford’s (1823-1846) | Devonshire Club (1874-1976) | Empress Club (1897-1955) | Junior Carlton Club (1864-1977) | Junior Constitutional Club (1887-1941) | Junior United Service Club (1827-1953) | Naval Club (1919-2021) | Pioneer Club (1892-1939) | United Service Club (1815-1975) | United University Club (1821-1971) | Whitehall Club (1866-1920)

Club management

Clubonomics: Could a small club like Blades survive? | Curating a reciprocals list | The hotel-club: Victorian comeback, or the blight of Clubland? | How membership elections work | Implications of the Garrick Club’s legal advice | “Interview with Matthew Rivett, Secretary of the Oriental Club” | Interviewing candidates for membership 🔒 | Overseas membership, and how it evolved | Vetting candidates for club membership | What is the “right” size for a club?

Club art and architecture

The Athenæum’s architecture and furniture - Tim Gosling [video] | Clubs in the work of James Gillray | The Garrick Club’s art collection | Reynolds’ group portraits for the Society of Dilettanti | White’s in Hogarth’s ‘A Rake’s Progress’

Clubs in literature

The Bellona Club and Lord Peter Wimsey | Biggles and the Royal Aero Club | Blades in the James Bond novels | “Clubmanship” - Stephen Potter | Clubs in ‘The Flashman Papers’ | The Diogenes Club in the Sherlock Holmes stories | The Junior Ganymede Club in P. G. Wodehouse | The Mystery of Doctor Watson’s Club | The Reform Club in ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ | The Sheridan Club in ‘Rumpole of the Bailey’

Clubs in film and television

Top Hat (1935) | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) | The Man Who Never Was (1956) | Around the World in 80 Days (1956) | Vertigo (1958) | Alfred Hitchcock Presents - ‘Specialty of the House’ (1959) | Dr. No (1962) | Goldfinger (1964) | Members Only (1965) | Casino Royale (1967) | Barry Lyndon (1975) | Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister (1980-8) | Around the World with Willy Fog (1984) | Around the World in 80 Days (1989 mini-series) | Around the World in 80 Days (1989 travelogue) | Jeeves & Wooster (1990-3) | Around the World in 80 Days (2021)

Essays and one-off features

Donald Trump and Mar-a-Lago | Good Chaps: The Rise and Fall of an Idea in Clubland | “Lodging at my club”: Which London clubs have bedrooms? 🔒 | London club libraries today | 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

Late June 2025 🔒 | Early June 2025 🔒 | May 2025 🔒 | April 2025 🔒 | March 2025 | February 2025 | January 2025 | December 2024 | November 2024 | August 2024

Books

London Clubland bibliography | ‘Behind Closed Doors’ audiobook preview [video] | Christmas 2024 reading list | ‘London Clubland’ launched today | New book forthcoming | Updated paperback edition of ‘Behind Closed Doors’ | Where to find scarce club histories