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The Athanæum
Language
English
Pages
320

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History, Athenæum Club (London, England)

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Table of Contents

The Edinburgh, the Quarterly, and the Athenaeum / John Thompson
Locked out of paradise: blackballing at the Athenaeum, 1824-1935 / J. Mordaunt Crook
A late-comer ot the club / Colin Leach
Dickens and the forty thieves / Gordon Philo
Antiquity writ large: Alma-Tadema, Poynter and the redecoration of the Athenaeum / Bruce Boucher
- The Athenaeum collection / Richard Wakler
The Athenaeum question book / Bryan Bennett
Davy, Faraday, the Royal Institution and the Athenaeum / George Porter
Geological sciences and the early years of the Athenaeum / Peter A. Sabine
Physics in the period 1850-1900: heat death and demons / Peter T. Landsberg
The engineer in society / Frederick Warner
John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), the club's founder. a littérateur in politics / David Thompson
The political waterfront / Roy Jenkins
Two parlimentary members / Patrick Cormack
Archbishop Randall Davidson / David L. Edwards
Clergy / David Cohn-Sherbok
Philanthropy-man's proudest gift / Kenneth Stowe
Lawyers seen at the Athenaeum / Paul Baker
The British Museum and the Athenaeum David M. Wilson
The sofa / John Charlton
How they saw our great and good / Hazhir Teimourian
Isiah Berlin / Michael Screech
The Athenaeum and the military / Michael Howard
Arms and the Athenaeum man / Wiiliam Reid
Athenaeum spaces and wishes / Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin: words of remembrance / George Steiner
Epilogue: 175 years of the Athenaeum / Alice Copisarow.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Library of Congress
HS2865.L7 A76 2001

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Pagination
xxiii, 320 pages
Number of pages
320

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OL35345708M
Internet Archive
armchairathenian0000unse
ISBN 10
0953529118
ISBN 13
9780953529117
OCLC/WorldCat
229153937

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