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Face the World with a Dandy Stance
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Face the World with a Dandy Stance
Before the banjolele there was an indie dance band, a dandy punk group that sang about sherry and ultra-violence, a…
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There Is No Such Thing as Nothing
A boy who watched beetles cross the grass rather than climb the trees grew into a poet, cartoonist, songwriter and…
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Clubland’s War Heroes
Private members' clubs were far more than dining rooms and drawing rooms during the Second World War. They became recruiting…
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Slide Back the Air
In this short reflective memoir, Colin (as Sid) discovers the value of solitude, long walks and quiet observation, revealing how…
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The Third Person
Can dandyism survive the twenty-first century without losing its meaning? This beautifully produced volume by Rose Callahan and Nathaniel Adams…
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Village Voices: “Children should be seen and not heard.”
Early Warning Signs, Part 3. Before screens, schedules and constant supervision, childhood meant wandering wherever curiosity led. In this evocative…
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A Home for Fallen Buildings Turns 100
A Welsh estuary wearing Mediterranean colours, a Jacobean ceiling rescued from demolition, a stone ship, Noël Coward, The Prisoner and…
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A Clock That Makes Tea
What separates a visionary invention from a ridiculous one? - Discover at Eccentric Contraptions at Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery,…
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A Clock That Makes Tea
What separates a visionary invention from a ridiculous one? - Discover at Eccentric Contraptions at Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery, where forgotten gadgets, improbable patents and…
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Beau Brummell’s Most Famous Retort
Beau Brummell transformed elegance into an art form and wit into a weapon. Friend and rival of the Prince Regent, arbiter of taste, fearless social icon…
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The mermaid in a dog collar
From a vicar who dressed as a mermaid, preached with nine cats in church and created what became the modern Harvest Festival, to the misunderstood rector…
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Face the World with a Dandy Stance
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The Wider Circle: London's Eccentric Scene
Beyond our own club, the flame of eccentricity burns bright across the capital and the Home Counties. So here is…
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The Six Faces of Lucy Freud
She spent a year at art school under her married name, saying nothing. Then she turned out the lights.
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The Fabulous Czainskis
He stuffed a dead pigeon and got the legs on backwards. She waded into the river at Hebden Bridge to…
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Music, Monkeys, and a Moat of Tea
He emptied his grandfather's shed to build an imaginary chocolate-biscuit machine. Forty years on, he is still doing much the…
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The Eccentric Charigs
Wes Anderson had The Royal Tenenbaums. The Eccentric Club knew the Charigs — meet a court jeweller dozing under the…
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Gary Bowman (1952-2020)
He took bets on American football from a call centre in Manchester, moved the whole operation to an island in…
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The Rakes' Progress
One of them wrote a Reformation rap battle between Luther and Leo X. The other canoed under the Rialto singing…
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Eccentricity in the Blood
In the 1960s, John Blythe recalled growing up in the Eccentric Club founded by his grandfather, Jack Harrison. Half a…
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Early Warning Signs
How does an eccentric begin? In this opening chapter of his memoir, Colin reflects on childhood, solitary curiosity and the…