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Not Just Beer and Bingo! A Social History of Working Men’s Clubs
CONTENTS LIST
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Time Line
Introduction
Setting the scene and introducing the main themes
Chapter One – Establishing the Early Clubs
Why were clubs needed? The Helping Hand of the CIU
What went on in Clubs? Convalescent Homes and Club Trips
To Drink or Not to Drink? ‘Private Members Only.’ Not so much ‘up North’ but ‘down South’. Political and Religious Affiliations
Chapter Two – Taking the Traditions into the 20th Century
No Landlords! Home from the Great War – Ex-Servicemen’s Clubs
Finding the Funds. The Interwar Years.
Post- War Club Building Boom. Modernisation is the Key Word!
Chapter Three – Bringing the Kids along: Clubs as Family Spaces
Children – ‘what club ever forgets these?’ Baby Boomers.
Getting ‘with it’! Losing their Appeal.
Not in front of the children?
Chapter Four – Taking their Turns: Entertainment
Uplifting or Degrading? Early Entertainment
Post War- Let the Good Times Roll. The ‘Ent Sec.’
A Training Ground for Talent . Not so funny- the current situation
Chapter Five – No Ladies Allowed? Women finding their Space for Pleasure
No Place for a Lady? Early clubs 1860-1930s. Opening the Doors Post War. Clubs as Safe Spaces.
The Struggle for Equality 1970s- 2007. Equal at Last?
Chapter Six – Games, Sports and Gambling
A Quiet Game or Two. The Post War Recreational Boom.
Eyes Down, Look In. Having a Flutter. Widening the Range of Activities. Who’s left playing now?
Chapter Seven – Working Women and Entertaining Ladies
They are all Working Women! Entertaining Females.
Sunday Lunchtime Strippers. Beauty Queens and Glamorous Grannies. What about the Cleaners? Final Note.
Chapter Eight – Dealing with Diversity
Charged with Discrimination: Historical Context.
‘You don’t have to be from the Valleys, but it helps. ’
Private Members and Invited Guests Only. Contemporary Situation.
Multicultural Entertainment?
Chapter Nine- Where have all the Members gone?
Ignoring the Writing on the Wall? Industrial Decline.
Social and Cultural Change. Committee and CIU Ways of Working. Legislation and Taxation.
The Smoking Ban and Cheap Supermarket Drink. And a few more things……
Chapter Ten – Survival, Revival and the Future
Doing it Themselves,
Communications and PR: the importance of the web.
CIU Actions., Any other ideas out there? Do clubs have a future?
Notes to all Chapters.
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