ClubCast: The Clubland Podcast

To mark the launch of Ben Schott’s new book, Schott’s Significa, I spoke to Ben about the distinctive and idiosyncratic use of language in London Clubland.
Ben is the author of Schott’s Original Miscellany and its sequel Miscellany and Almanac volumes, as well as the author of two ‘Jeeves & Wooster’ novels. He is also a keen frequenter (and observer) of clubs.
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This week’s ClubCast looks at the pariah regime of Ian Smith in Rhodesia, after 1965’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence. It tackles the mystery of whether the capital’s Salisbury Club - a pillar of the Rhodesian white minority establishment throughout these years - helped to prop up the regime, through the years of sanctions and civil war.


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Andrew Jones is the author of a major new coffee-table book, The London Club: Architecture, Interiors, Art, lavishly illustrated with photographs by Laura Hodgson.
It was a pleasure to be joined by Andrew for an exclusive interview for the Clubland Substack, to explore what club interiors can tell us.


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This week’s ClubCast (the Clubland Podcast) looks at the many attempts to set up an official Labour Party private members’ club in central London; and at Labour’s strained relations with clubs.


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This week’s edition of ClubCast (the Clubland Podcast) takes a detailed look at one of the most dramatic chapters of Clubland history: the bombing of the Carlton Club in the Blitz, when it was filled with members of Churchill’s government.


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