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Category Archives: Anniversaries
Brideshead @ 75: Tablet, Quadrant, Penguin
More commemorations of the Brideshead anniversary have been posted: –Eleanor Doughty writing in The Tablet confesses in her introduction that, despite being a dedicated Waugh fan, she has never liked this particular volume. She surveys other literary journalists and scholars, … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged Eleanor Doughty, Mark McGinness, Penguin Books, Quadrant, The Tablet
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Brideshead @ 75: Castle Howard, The Spectator, BBC
Today is the 75th anniversary of the first book publication of Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall and the Book Society jointly issued the book in London on 28 May 1945. The occasion has been marked in several recent events: –Castle … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Festivals, Film, Interviews, Radio Programs, Television
Tagged BBC Radio Scotland, Castle Howard, Chris Ridgway, Jenny Niven, Philip Hensher, The Evening Standard, The Spectator
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75th Anniversary of Brideshead Book Publication
The first book publication of Brideshead Revisited took place in London 75 years ago this week on 28 May 1945. In the period of slightly less than a year since Waugh had submitted his typescript to Chapman & Hall in … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, First Editions, Newspapers
Tagged Book Society, Chapman & Hall, Sunday Times
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Brideshead @ 75: Sunday Telegraph
This is the opening day of Brideshead Revisited’s 75th anniversary week. The first book publication took place on 28 May 1945 in London. The Sunday Telegraph is first off the mark in its recognition of the event with an article … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Hannah Betts, Sunday Telegraph
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Brideshead Webinar (More)
The following additional information has been received from Castle Howard about the 28 May 2020 webinar: The webinar will celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the first publication of Brideshead, by exploring Castle Howard’s relationship with Waugh’s classic novel. Our Curator … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Discussions, Events
Tagged Castle Howard, Webinar
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Waugh’s Selfie
In a recent post we mentioned Evelyn Waugh’s appearance in a response to  Spectator competition #3148-Selfie. This was set by Lucy Vickery in the 10,000th edition of the magazine: ‘Some famous painters are thought to have slipped small self-portraits into … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged J C H Mounsey, Spectator Competition 3148
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Brideshead Webinar Scheduled for 28 May
Castle Howard has announced a webinar to be conducted via Twitter on Thursday, 28 May. Here’s the text of the announcement: The 28th May will mark the 75th Anniversary of the first publication of Brideshead Revisited. Our Curator will run a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Events
Tagged Castle Howard, Chris Ridgway, Webinar
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Waugh’s V-E Day
Milena Borden has forwarded the following article to commemorate the 75th anniversary of V-E Day as experienced by Evelyn Waugh: A few days before the Victory in Europe (V-E Day), which marked the formal end of Hitler’s war, Waugh was … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Helena, Interviews, Waugh in Abyssinia, World War II
Tagged Benito Mussolini, V-E Day
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V-E Day Roundup
–As the observance of the 75th anniversary of V-E Day approaches, the Daily Mail has posted in a slide show a collection of 1945 events that seemed to presage a return to a social system where class status was again … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, World War II
Tagged Cherwell, Daily Mail, Duncan McLaren, Tatler, V-E Day
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The Spectator at 10,000 (More)
The Spectator’s celebration of its 10,000th issue continues to spread and produce comment. The Daily Telegraph provides an opportunity for The Spectator’s current editor Fraser Nelson to explain what he has found to be the magazine’s approach to politics: …David … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, James F Buckley Jr, National Review, Senator Joseph McCarthy, The Spectator
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