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Yearly Archives: 2025
Roundup: From Lytham Hall to Combe Florey
–Lytham Hall is cited in a recent article as having inspired or influenced the country house setting of Brideshead Revisited. This is in a feature-length article by David Slattery-Christy in the Sunday Express. The author thinks that both the owner … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Photographs
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Lytham Hall, Muriel Spark, New Statesman, Pamela Berry, Sunday Express, Sunday Telegraph
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Alastair Graham: An Interesting Offer
One of our readers (Hartley Moorhouse) has sent an interesting auction listing relating to communications between Evelyn Waugh and his Oxford friend Alastair Graham. This is explained in Hartley’s comment: You and other EWS Newsletter readers may be interested in … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged Alastair Graham, Dominic Winter Auctions
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Early June Roundup
–A recent issue of the Daily Telegraph reports the death of Roger Cooper. This includes a discussion of Cooper’s extended imprisonment in Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran: Roger Cooper, who has died aged 90, was a British journalist and businessman who was … Continue reading
Roundup: Books, Paintings and Photographs
–The latest edition of The Oldie contains an article that may be of interest. This is by A N Wilson and is entitled “Great War Stories”. Here is the opening paragraph: WWII inspired Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell and Olivia Manning … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Combe Florey, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged A N Wilson, Duncan McLaren, Edward Burra, Eleanor Doughty, The Economist, The Oldie, The Times
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Memorial Day/Bank Holiday Roundup
–The Garden Museum in Lambeth, London, has opened an exhibit called “Cecil Beaton’s Garden Party.” This was described in a recent article in The Observer by Vanessa Thorpe: …The strong horticultural influence on Beaton’s work is recognised now in an … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Events, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Garden Museum/Lambeth, Harvard Crimson, The Observer, The Oldie
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Roundup: Handful and Helena
–Several Spanish language papers have reported a new Spanish translation of A Handful of Dust. This is by Society member Carlos Villar Flor who has participated in several EWS events. Here’s an edited translation of the announcement: Professor of English Literature … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Discussions, Helena, Translations
Tagged Carlos Villar Flor, Chicago Tribune, Collegium Institute, First Things
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Three Longer Waugh Articles
–A copy of a 2017 article by Waugh Scholar Naomi Milthorp has been posted on the internet by Amazon Web Service. This is a PDF file and is entitled “The Materials of Which I Am Made: Evelyn Waugh and Book … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Basil Seal Rides Again
Tagged Cyril Connolly, Denis Topalovic, Duncan McLaren; Richard Plunket Greene, Naomi Milthorp, The Unquiet Grave
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May Day Roundup
—The Times newspaper has published an article by Max Hastings on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII. In it Hastings explains: Almost five decades after publishing my first book about war, I am no longer … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Clive James, Dark Academia, Max Hastings, The Times newspaper, William Boyd
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Easter Week Roundup
British journalist Eleanor Doughty, well known to our readers, has made a revisit to Castle Howard. What she finds is described in an article in the Times newspaper. Here is an excerpt: There is nowhere on earth like Castle Howard. … Continue reading
