Palaces of Power: The Birth and Evolution of London's Clubland

‘A tour of gentleman’s clubs from their rowdy beginnings to their stately present’ The Times

‘This book vividly captures clubland’s brief history in all its transient (and occasionally squalid) glory’ Daily Mail

‘Stephen Hoare’s genial history of this Clubland-at-home is a fascinating story told with wit and verve’ Professor Jerry White, Birbeck University of London

The core of what we call St James’s dates from the late seventeenth century, when large estates were leased by the Crown to the l...