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We have shortlisted five contenders for London's most eccentric borough — and then decided to let you be the judge. Read the cases, weigh the evidence,…
Once dismissed as a Victorian curiosity, penny farthing racing has become a fiercely competitive international sport, with new records falling at velodromes across the world.
Can dandyism survive the twenty-first century without losing its meaning? This beautifully produced volume by Rose Callahan and Nathaniel Adams examines style as identity, individuality and…
A Welsh estuary wearing Mediterranean colours, a Jacobean ceiling rescued from demolition, a stone ship, Noël Coward, The Prisoner and a village built as "a home…
What separates a visionary invention from a ridiculous one? - Discover at Eccentric Contraptions at Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery, where forgotten gadgets, improbable patents and…
One night at Ferrières: 12 December 1972, an invitation you had to read in a mirror, a château lit to look as though it were burning,…
He spent sixty years making art out of movement — steel rods that crept in and out of their own structures, discs that turned on hidden…
In the winter of 1973, the future King came through our doors in pursuit of the three silliest men in England — and it was, by…
For generations, Britain's greatest pubs were remembered not just for their breweries but for the extraordinary personalities behind the bar. From Soho's famously rude Norman Balon…
Colour-drenched walls, mismatched antiques, wallpapered ceilings and curious collections have returned to fashion under the banner of the "Eccentric Aunt." But is eccentricity really something that…
When Meg Avon married the River Avon in 2023, many dismissed it as performance art. Three years later, after becoming one of the river's most recognisable…
He played every wide boy, tipster, black-marketeer and fast-talking chancer that the British cinema of the rationed years required — and it required a great many.…
Beyond our own club, the flame of eccentricity burns bright across the capital and the Home Counties. So here is our field guide to eccentric London:…
Long before Downing Street acquired its latest occupant, Britain had entrusted its fortunes to an extraordinary procession of tree-fellers, tricyclists, theologians, dandies, yachtsmen and philosophers. From…
A short history of The Eccentric - its editors, its publishers, and why, after more than fifty years and three series, it now goes online
At twenty-one, he stood about in the grounds of Knebworth House while Trevor Howard, blacked up and in a tutu, rode a unicycle past him —…
He judged the Club's Greatest British Eccentric of the Year award in 2009, and went on insisting to the end that he was not one himself.…
He was expelled from grammar school over a cricket pavilion that came very close to burning down, and ran away to sea on a tramp steamer.…