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
Club comes of age—not
In which Matthew Howard marked the Club's 18th birthday with a flurry of smut and innuendo about Essex, and a mixture of warmth and irreverence about the Club itself
A musical treat with a noble history
A look at the history of shanties and performances of a few of them, with audience participation very much encouraged
Entente Cordiality wins the day
In honour of the Paris Olympics, our summer party had a Gallic theme
Ghosts of the Medway marshes
Our monthly meeting, this time with guest speaker Adam Taylor
NSC Expeditionary Force to Italy
The New Sheridan Club sends a delegation to an Italian dandy festival
May Day marvels from Padstow
Clayton Hartley describes the extraordinary May Day celebrations in this Cornish town
Club exposed to decadent pictures
Can decadent literature transfer to the comic book format? There is one man who knows.
Mud and art on Hampstead Heath
A bracing ramble with the promise of pubs and the lush Kenwood House
German and the Colonel surface in St James’s
Two US Members take time to experience traditional British pub hospitality—and no one gets glassed
Rediscovering the ‘Windsor Uniform’
Zack Pinsent recounts how he reconstructed George III’s court dress