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

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Annual Ale Trail

The club’s yearly pub crawl took in the hipster haunts of Shoreditch, Hoxton and Hackney, pivoting between Victorian and 1930s aesthetics

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Flagons and dragons

Our monthly meeting, with speaker Aidan Rothnie telling us about the birth of fantasy role-playing games

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Express delivery

Guest speaker Philip Hancock tells us all about the Orient Express

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Pastures new

At the first meeting in our new venue, Luca Jellinek talked to us about the origins of Chappism.

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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.

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