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This work is the first to study the gentlemen´s clubs that were an important feature of the Late Victorian landscape, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early 20th-century ideas about gender, power, class, and the city.

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Coffeehouses to Clubhouses: Understanding the Gentlemen´s Clubs of London The Blackball: Looking for the ´Right Sort´ of Member Gentlemen Behaving Badly Club Talk, Men´s Gossip, and the Creation of a Community The Club as Home: Imagining Male Domesticity Naughty Bachelors, Bad Husbands, and Mixed-Sex Destiny The Importance of Space and Place: Clubland and the Divided Capital

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AMY MILNE-SMITH is an Assistant Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

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