How Eccentric is Downing Street?
Long before Downing Street acquired its latest occupant, Britain had entrusted its fortunes to an extraordinary procession of tree-fellers, tricyclists, theologians, dandies,…
Eccentric Club
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,…
They Turned Out to Be My Friends
A personal recollection of representing The Eccentric Club in Devon by our member Colin Shaddick, who won one of The Most Eccentric…
Lives and Portraits of Remarkable Characters
A short history of The Eccentric - its editors, its publishers, and why, after more than fifty years and three series, it…
The Eccentric Charigs
Wes Anderson had The Royal Tenenbaums. The Eccentric Club knew the Charigs — meet a court jeweller dozing under the club clock,…
Nic Wing (1958-2016)
At twenty-one, he stood about in the grounds of Knebworth House while Trevor Howard, blacked up and in a tutu, rode a…
The Great Point of the Tower
Pink pigeons on the lawn, a clavichord under the seat of the Rolls, a horse taking tea in the drawing room, and…
The Peer Who Turned Down a Kingdom
Kipling wrote The Man Who Would Be King - the fable of an Englishman who travels east, is taken for a god…
Sid The Adventurer
Who is Sid? Meet the eccentric cartoon character born from imagination, ADHD, creative frustration and the very human fear of never quite…
The Fabulous Czainskis
He stuffed a dead pigeon and got the legs on backwards. She waded into the river at Hebden Bridge to rescue a…
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.