Clublife

The golf club may be most commonly regarded as a place where men and women play that royal and ancient game, but truth be told, it also serves as a sort of Petri dish for some of the most outrageous, hysterical, and inane behavior found in modern society. You have hackers and stiffs. Flakes and dilettantes. Corporate big wigs and trust fund babies. They all exist in a kind of upper crust Animal House, where the denizens wear Burberry blazers instead of togas, and guzzle gin-and-tonics rather than beers. But the laughs, and the head shaking, are very much the same.

Club Life of London in two volumes is a work of social history that presents the pictures of the social life of England's Capital, with anecdotes of the clubs, coffee-houses and taverns of the metropolis during the 17th, 18th, and 19th century. The goal of the work was to record the Club-life in a series of sketches of the leading Societies, presented through the portrayal of a wide variety clubs and taverns. The first volume deals with London Clubs, while the second volume is devoted to the Coffee-house and Tavern Life, and presents a diversity of sketches, anecdotes and reminiscences

Reproduction of the original: Club Life of London by John Timbs