
News
What we’ve been up to and what we’re planning. This website was launched in May 2021: for news stories from the Club’s previous 14 years see the News Archive preserved from our old website
Flagons and dragons
Our monthly meeting, with speaker Aidan Rothnie telling us about the birth of fantasy role-playing games
Pastures new
At the first meeting in our new venue, Luca Jellinek talked to us about the origins of Chappism.
Hats off to the World Hat Walk
The Club makes a strong showing at the annual headwear parade
Wilde about the boy
For our last meeting at the Wheatsheaf, our home for some 20 years, we were treated to a talk about the rise and fall of Oscar Wilde.
How I learned to stop worrying and love the Obscene Publications Act
The talk at our February meeting would have made Mary Whitehouse's hair stand on end…
Club chilled by criminal hauntings
Our monthly club meeting, with guest speaker Lindsay Siviter
Club party pays respect to the Mob
This year our Christmas bash was “A Party You Can't Refuse”
Club cheered by classic Christmas tale
For our December meeting, the Earl of Essex read us "Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit”
Club comes of age—not
In which Matthew Howard marked the Club's 18th birthday with a flurry of smut and innuendo about Essex, and a mixture of warmth and irreverence about the Club itself