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Category Archives: Scott-King’s Modern Europe
Dog Days Roundup
–BBC has announced the rebroadcast of a three-hour adaptation of Waugh’s wartime novel Put Out More Flags. This will air on BBC Radio 4 Extra over three successive days at 15:00p British time starting on Tuesday, 3 September 2024. Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Black Mischief, Put Out More Flags, Radio, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC, Crisis magazine, The Imaginative Conservative
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Roundup (Exhibits and a Lecture)
–The Historical Association (Richmond & Twickenham Branch) has announced a lecture later this year that may be of interest to our London area readers: Takes Place: 28th September 2023 Time: 8pm Venue: Richmond Library Annexe, Quadrant St, Richmond TW9 Description: a fascinating … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Forest Lawn Museum, Historical Association, The Herald (Glasgow), The Independent, The Press (NZ)
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‘The Loved One’ Remembered
The New Criterion magazine has posted an essay on the writing, publication and history of Waugh’s 1948 novel The Loved One. This is by John P Rossi who is Professor Emeritus of History at La Salle University in Philadelphia. While … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe, The Loved One
Tagged Cyril Connolly, Edmund Wilson, John P Rossi, The New Criterion
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75th Anniversary of The Loved One
The Loved One appeared in print 75 years ago this month in the pages of Cyril Connolly’s magazine Horizon. Waugh had begun writing it on 21 May 1947 shortly after his return to England from Los Angeles. He finished a … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe, The Loved One
Tagged Cyril Connolly, Daily Mail, Horizon magazine, New Yorker, Peter Quennell
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Boxing Day Roundup
–Penguin have announced the issuance of a new edition of Waugh’s first book Rossetti: His Life and Work. This will be in the Penguin Modern Classics series and will be issued in the UK in April 2022. It will be … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Vile Bodies
Tagged b/o/i, Books & Boots, Catholic Herald, Los Angeles Review of Books, Penguin Books
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Evelyn’s Last Dance
Duncan McLaren has posted two articles in his Brideshead Festival series in which Evelyn Waugh ponders the contents of the last two volumes of Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time. These are Temporary Kings (1973) and Hearing Secret … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Humo(u)r, Men at Arms, Put Out More Flags, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged Anthony Powell, Dance to the Music of Time, Duncan McLaren
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Scott-King’s Modern Latin
In these days of preparation for the resumption of schooling in some form, The Epoch Times has posted an article asking whether parents should be signing up their children for Latin lessons. This is written by Jeff Minick, who opens … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged Latin, Philip Spires, The Epoch Times
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Juneteenth Roundup
–A recent article in the Times newspaper criticizes plans for reopening some schools after lockdown with what it sees as a confusing “blend” of in-school live and at-home online teaching. Alex Massie opens the article with a quote from Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Waugh in Abyssinia, When the Going Was Good
Tagged Daily Mail, Il Primato Nazionale, Information.dk, Jakob Illeborg, Kenyon Review, London Library, The Times
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Post-Pandemic Predictions: A Roundup
–David Aaronovitch writing in a recent issue of The Times posed the question what would be the cultural responses to the pandemic. This is in an article entitled “We’ll be free to enjoy the Roaring 2020s”. He thought the closest … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Vile Bodies
Tagged aperture.org, The Times, thebfd.co.nz, Washington Exminer
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