ClubCast: The Clubland Podcast

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 ha...

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. You can view the full and varied bac...

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 a...

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

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

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. Get full access to Seth Thévoz’s Clubland Substack at clubland.substack.com/subscribe

This week’s edition of ClubCast (the Clubland Podcast) offers a deep dive into one of the best-known fictional clubs of all time - Blades, in Ian Fleming’s original James Bond novels of the 1950s and 1960s. And it asks how accurate and plausible it was, compared to the clubs of the day? Get full access to Seth Thévoz’s Clubland Substack at clubland.substack.com/subscribe

This is the experimental first episode of the new podcast edition of ‘Clubland’, on the world of private members’ clubs - think of it as an audiobook edition of the Clubland Substack, with little easter egg extras. This first episode looks at the explosion of clubs across continental Europe, after the fall of Napoleon. So settle back and enjoy… Get full access to Seth Thévoz’s Clubland Substack at...