ClubCast 5: Interiors of London clubs, with Andrew Jones

ClubCast 8: Philip Palumbo on the Walbrook Club

The ClubCast returns for another season! The Walbrook Club is a highly idiosyncratic institution in the heart of the City of London; the last of the clubs to be designed by Mark Birley. It is also a rare example of a London club still being run as a family business, and I was delighted to sit down with its Managing Director, the Hon. Philip Palumbo, for a free-ranging discussion on how the Club has evolved, and is still evolving. You can view the full and varied backlog of Clubland Substack articles, by clicking on the index [https://clubland.substack.com/p/index] below. Get full access to Seth Thévoz’s Clubland Substack at clubland.substack.com/subscribe [https://clubland.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

ClubCast 7: Ben Schott on Clubland language

To mark the launch of Ben Schott’s new book, Schott’s Significa [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/468314/schotts-significa-by-schott-ben/9780241736609], 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. You can view the full and varied backlog of Clubland Substack articles, by clicking on the index [https://clubland.substack.com/p/index] below. Get full access to Seth Thévoz’s Clubland Substack at clubland.substack.com/subscribe [https://clubland.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

ClubCast 6: Did Rhodesia's Salisbury Club prop up the Ian Smith regime?

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. Get full access to Seth Thévoz’s Clubland Substack at clubland.substack.com/subscribe [https://clubland.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

ClubCast 5: Interiors of London clubs, with Andrew Jones

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. Get full access to Seth Thévoz’s Clubland Substack at clubland.substack.com/subscribe [https://clubland.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

ClubCast 4: The Labour Party & Clubs

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. Get full access to Seth Thévoz’s Clubland Substack at clubland.substack.com/subscribe [https://clubland.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]