Reformed Characters: The Reform Club in History and Literature - an Anthology and Commentary by Russell Burlingham, Roger Billis (Hardcover, 2005)

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Everyone knows the Reform Club as the scene of the wager that the world could be circumnavigated In Eighty Days as described in Jules Verne's novel; and countless Londoners and tourists have stood outside the Pall Mall facade of Barry's Grade I listed masterpiece wondering what goes on inside. In a new approach to the arcane world of 'Clubland', this book endeavours to conduct readers on a journey into the real Pall Mall landscape. This is neither conventional narrative history nor a mere tally of anecdotes. Instead, it tells the story of the Club's development through the eyes of its most celebrated occupants. Founded in 1836 as the 'Central Office' of the Liberal party, the Reform existed for less than eighty years as a strictly political club, but whilst it did, it was the centre of Liberal and coalition government making and breaking. This book has chapters on the Liberal Prime Ministers, such as Palmerston, Asquith and Lloyd George ...