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Napping in the Athenaeum

Jonathan Parry: London Clubland, 8 September 2022

Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members’ Clubs 
by Seth AlexanderThévoz.
Robinson, 367 pp., £25, July, 978 1 4721 4646 5
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... he dropped the chapter on clubs altogether in his third edition, published in 1971.The title of Seth AlexanderThévoz’s new book suggests a return to Cobbett’s world rather than Sampson’s. His focus is also on Pall Mall, though he ventures occasionally into the empire and more hesitantly into working-men’s ...

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