Armchair Athenians
Subtitle: essays from Athanæum life
By: John Thompson [and others]
Contributors: Philo, Gordon; Boucher, Bruce
Publisher: The Athanæum
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780953529117
Subjects: History; Athenæum Club (London, England)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Edinburgh, the Quarterly, and the Athenaeum / John Thompson; title: Locked out of paradise: blackballing at the Athenaeum, 1824-1935 / J. Mordaunt Crook; title: A late-comer ot the club / Colin Leach; title: Dickens and the forty thieves / Gordon Philo; title: Antiquity writ large: Alma-Tadema, Poynter and the redecoration of the Athenaeum / Bruce Boucher; title: - The Athenaeum collection / Richard Wakler; title: The Athenaeum question book / Bryan Bennett; title: Davy, Faraday, the Royal Institution and the Athenaeum / George Porter; title: Geological sciences and the early years of the Athenaeum / Peter A. Sabine; title: Physics in the period 1850-1900: heat death and demons / Peter T. Landsberg; title: The engineer in society / Frederick Warner; title: John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), the club's founder. a littérateur in politics / David Thompson; title: The political waterfront / Roy Jenkins; title: Two parlimentary members / Patrick Cormack; title: Archbishop Randall Davidson / David L. Edwards; title: Clergy / David Cohn-Sherbok; title: Philanthropy-man's proudest gift / Kenneth Stowe; title: Lawyers seen at the Athenaeum / Paul Baker; title: The British Museum and the Athenaeum David M. Wilson; title: The sofa / John Charlton; title: How they saw our great and good / Hazhir Teimourian; title: Isiah Berlin / Michael Screech; title: The Athenaeum and the military / Michael Howard; title: Arms and the Athenaeum man / Wiiliam Reid; title: Athenaeum spaces and wishes / Yehudi Menuhin; title: Yehudi Menuhin: words of remembrance / George Steiner; title: Epilogue: 175 years of the Athenaeum / Alice Copisarow.