This week, we learn about the final years of the Napoleonic era, poke around the exclusive gentlemen’s watering holes of Pall Mall, and discover how Roy Orbison ended up meeting his wife in Batley Variety Club.

’Napoleon: The decline and fall of an Empire, 1811-1821’ by Michael Broers

’Napoleon at Peace: How to end a revolution’ by William Doyle

‘Behind Close Doors: The secret life of London’s private members’ clubs’ by Seth Alexander Thévoz

‘Clubland: How the working men's club shaped Britain’ by Pete Brown

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