London Clubland

Capturing homosocial worlds in the photographs of the Rugby Club, 1885–1920

“…Here, the images extend the ideas of Amy Milne-Smith and Quintin Colville that all-male spaces were infused with domestic practices and feeling. 77 Men were shown cooking and washing up. 78 Eating and drinking became a tool for framing the Rugby Club's collective practices of homosocial socialisation, regularly captured by pictures of large groups dining.…”

The 'bickerings' of the 'Mangungu Brethren': Talk, Tales and Rumour in Early New Zealand

“…Like the clubmen of late nineteenth-century Britain, revealing matters of a private nature went against the interests of the individual's character and public standing, but, for the mission, it also brought it into disrepute. 31 When James Watkin fell from grace in Tonga, Hobbs, also stationed there, 'was distressed and that most deeply: indeed, it made me quite ill. It now became a question with me, what I ought to do.…”

The Drinking Cultures of the Higher Classes

“…By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, both clubs, although founded for different purposes, were attracting men who moved in similar circles. 15 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a member of both the Athenaeum and the Reform Clubs and indeed many men held membership of several West End Clubs where they dined and drank regularly. 16 In a history of The Athenaeum Club, written by one of its members Mr F. R. Cowell, the author praised the work of the Club's successive wine committees Such a tribute is more necessary because histories of Clubs do not usually have much to say about wine, which matters less because memories of vanished vintages and long-forgotten wine lists can be merely tantalising irrelevancies to those with no hope of profiting from either.…”