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Where the Whigs went

Brooks's, the club in the middle of St James's Street, was the centre of Whiggery and the watering hole of Charles James Fox. A book of essays celebrates its 250th year

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

Brooks’s, 1764–2014 Charles Sebag-Montefiore and Joe Mordaunt

Crook Brooks’s, pp.216, £40, ISBN: 9781907372612

A book about one of the London clubs, published to mark its 250th anniversary, might be regarded as of extremely limited public appeal, designed only for the enjoyment of its members, 800 of whom have subscribed more than 900 copies (one blenches to think why members might want more than one copy).

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Available from Brooks’s, 60 St James’s Street, London SW1A 1LN or from Spectator Bookshop, £36. Tel: 08430 600033.

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