News
What we’ve been up to and what we’re planning. This website was launched in May 2021: for news stories from the Club’s previous 14 years see the News Archive preserved from our old website
Ginger Rogers is the star—but a pigeon steals the show
High times when the NSC goes to the movies
Celebrating the Battle of Minden
In which the Club learns about an important, but largely forgotten, action in the Seven Years War
A medley of Red Lions
Time for another Club pub crawl, and this time the five pubs all had the same name
Rediscovering a Victorian eccentric
Our March meeting featured a talk on an infamous horticulturalist
Land of ice and beauty
Tim Eyre addressed our February meeting on the subject of Greenland
Making a hash of the rail strike
A technological first for the Club at our January meeting
Essex offers Christmas selection
For our last Club Night of 2022, the Earl of Essex treated us to a festive literary pot pourri
Faces from the front
At our November meeting Sarah Bowerman looked at the intersection between art and facial reconstructive surgery during the World Wars
Better get a boater (if you can)
Our latest meeting featured a hastily assembled but hugely satisfying talk on the boater hat
Drinking our way along the Thames
Ian White takes us on a picturesque pub crawl along the river in Rotherhithe
Club learns about clubs from an expert
At our September Club Night Seth Thévoz talked to us about the history of members’ clubs
Saxby spills the beans on chokey
David Saxby came to our July meeting to tell us about his time in jail for tax evasion
Award honours fallen comrade
An award named after Fruity Hatfield-Peverel has been bestowed for the first time
Platty Jubes to all!
The Club celebrate’s the Queen’s jubilee with a day of al fresco eating and lounging around
Club swells the ranks of Chappist flâneurie
NSC members take the lead at the Grand Flâneur Walk