Oxford’s Frat from Hell: The Bullingdon Club
Crowned & Cancelled
Shallon Lester
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Ever wonder why guys neg hot women? Because when there's nothing left to build, you destroy.
In this episode of the Crowned & Cancelled history podcast, I dive into Oxford University's Bullingdon Club for some true dark academia—tales of aristocrats and heirs who used their privilege to move fast and break things. A lot of things.
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| 0:00.0 | If you were to make a motto for your life, what would it be? Or how about a motto for your friend group? |
| 0:07.0 | I asked you girls on Instagram and got some pretty incredible answers. So Chloe's click would have |
| 0:12.1 | Gaslight, gatekeep, girl boss as their slogan. And while Jules says, if her and her girls had to carve |
| 0:18.5 | something into stone, it would be do it for the voice notes. Kelly's crew is a sociopath book club, and Abigail and her girls had to carve something into stone, it would be, do it for the voice notes. |
| 0:21.9 | Kelly's crew is a sociopath book club, and Abigail and her girls summarize their friendship with syphilis and hot glue, but wants us all to know, it's a long story. |
| 0:32.5 | I love this. You guys are so weird and so amazing. |
| 0:36.6 | My own group chats are called Fweckles. |
| 0:40.6 | Just don't ask. |
| 0:42.0 | And then, of course, hobo, piss bush, weed spot. |
| 0:45.3 | Also a bit of a long story. |
| 0:47.8 | A great group chat name is actually nothing new. |
| 0:51.6 | But we got to rewind a few hundred years to 1780. America had its freedom. |
| 0:57.0 | Marie Antoinette still had her head. And Oxford University, where I am currently recording this episode |
| 1:02.6 | in my Exeter College summer school dorm room, beds and all, had their most notorious secret |
| 1:09.6 | society, the Bullington Club. It began as a cricket and hunting club, |
| 1:14.6 | but the ultra wealthy, ultra aristocratic members, just 30 of them, quickly realized that, you know, |
| 1:21.6 | sports are tiring, but eating and drinking in extremely fancy clothes, not so much. You can lose at cricket. But can you |
| 1:30.3 | fail at binge drinking? No, sir, you cannot. So the vibe shifted and with it, so did their mission |
| 1:35.7 | statement. Would you like to venture a guess as to what the Bullyingdon motto was? Hmm, maybe it was |
| 1:42.3 | something cryptic and menacing like, never by light, only by fire. |
| 1:48.4 | Or maybe something classic like, be worthy of your heritage. |
| 1:52.8 | Which, by the way, is the actual motto for this boarding school in Massachusetts called |
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