Out of the Centre: Exploring the Meaning of the Word 'Eccentric'
On the drifting meaning of a single word - why the late Lord Bath spent a lifetime declining it, how a national…
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A Big Bean in a Small Can: Forty Years On
In 1986, a computer technician from Port Talbot climbed into a bath of baked beans and stayed there for a hundred hours.…
The Freedom of the Peculiar: Vote on London's Most Eccentric Borough
We have shortlisted five contenders for London's most eccentric borough — and then decided to let you be the judge. Read the…
They Turned Out to Be My Friends
A personal recollection of representing The Eccentric Club in Devon by our member Colin Shaddick, who won one of The Most Eccentric…
Benedict "Ben" le Vay (1953-2022)
He judged the Club's Greatest British Eccentric of the Year award in 2009, and went on insisting to the end that he…
The Dancing Marquess
He had 30,000 acres, a perfumed motor car and a chapel he turned into a theatre. In six brief years, Henry Cyril…
Sid The Adventurer
Who is Sid? Meet the eccentric cartoon character born from imagination, ADHD, creative frustration and the very human fear of never quite…
The Fabulous Czainskis
He stuffed a dead pigeon and got the legs on backwards. She waded into the river at Hebden Bridge to rescue a…
The Six Faces of Lucy Freud
She spent a year at art school under her married name, saying nothing. Then she turned out the lights.
Dare To Be Eccentric?
Since the eighteenth century, the Eccentric Club has celebrated originality, fellowship and independent thought. Yet in an age of culture wars, cancellation…
Contradiction in Terms
"Eccentric Club?" – "Isn't there a contradiction in terms?"
Are You Eccentric?
What if eccentricity is not the exception, but the natural condition of being human?
Definitions of Eccentricity
The eccentric does not behave strangely for the sake of it; the eccentric simply refuses to accept that the boundaries drawn by…