History Corner
The Immortal Dinner of 1872Only four years after its foundation, on 6th September 1872, the Whitefriars Club held one of its most memorable and eventful dinners.
Read moreOnly four years after its foundation, on 6th September 1872, the Whitefriars Club held one of its most memorable and eventful dinners.
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In July 1890, Oscar Wilde called at the Whitefriars Club’s rooms at Anderton’s Hotel and had a long talk about Dorian Gray with Friar Sidney Low, then editor of the St James’s Gazette.
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Sir Antony Beevor (b. 1946) is a military historian and the acclaimed author of popular historical works, mainly on the Second World War and the Russian Revolution and Civil War.
He spoke at the Whitefriars Club on the subject of ‘What We Can Learn from History’ on 24th April 2019.
