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Yearly Archives: 2025
End-of-June Roundup
—The Times newspaper has a story by Magnus Linklater about the recent gift of a substantial book collection to the charity Christian Aid in Edinburgh. Here are some excerpts: …Among the books collected over a lifetime by Halla Beloff, senior … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Discussions, Interviews, Items for Sale, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Scoop, Sword of Honour					
					
				
								
					Tagged Lovestruck Books, New York Times, The Guardian, The Spectator, The Times				
				
				
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		Summer Solstice Roundup
–Literary journalist and novelist D J Taylor has a review in the 21 June 2025 edition of The Spectator. This relates to a new book by Nicola Wilson entitled Recommended! The Influencers Who Changed How We Read where she discusses … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Articles, Interviews, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television Programs					
					
				
								
					Tagged New York Times, Radio Times, The Spectator, The Times				
				
				
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		Simon J. James (1950-2025) R.I.P.
Duncan McLaren has advised that literary scholar Prof. Simon J James died earlier this week. He was active in the EWS and was editor of the Decline and Fall volume of theĀ OUP’s Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh.Ā This would be … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Obituaries, Vile Bodies					
					
				
								
					Tagged Simon J James				
				
				
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		Juneteenth Roundup
–This week’s Sunday Telegraph has an article entitled “The books that every 16-year-old boy should be reading.” This included short selections by several writers, including Simon Heffer who recommends Waugh’s Decline and Fall: When I was 16 and thinking of … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, Scoop, Television Programs, The Loved One					
					
				
								
					Tagged Baltimore Sun, Sunday Telegraph, Victorian Blood Book, Women's Wear Daily				
				
				
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		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 Beatonās 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: ProfessorĀ 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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