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*John Timbs wrote a sociologicial manual called, ''Club Life of London''. In the eighteenth and nineteenth century in London there were clubs for politics, religion, any occupation you could think of, any recreation you could think of and basically doing nothing but getting drunk in a leisurely manner. In fact you could really have a club for ''almost anything''. Curiously there were very few clubs for women nor were women invited into men's clubs until recently. But with that exception, London Clubs were basically a way to chill out all the city's and to some degree the whole country's business and entertainment, at least for the upper classes. Lower classes of course went to pubs where they more or less did the same thing but the furnishings were less expensive.

* Tim Newark wrote a biography of the British Naval and Military Club under the title, ''The In and Out''