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Category Archives: Sword of Honour
80th Anniversary of Nazi/Soviet Non-Aggression Pact Marked
The French news website Contrepoints has reposted a 2014 article by British journalist and politician Daniel Hannan (“The biggest success of the left: to forget the German-Soviet pact”). The article was written on the occasion of the 75th of the … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Contrepoints, Daniel Hannan
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Dog Days Roundup
–Musician Johnny Greenwood, composer and lead guitarist of the veteran rockband Radiohead, was recently interviewed by the Times newspaper. In answer to their request to identify his favorite writer he again named Evelyn Waugh and declared Sword of Honour as … Continue reading
Late July Roundup
–The latest issue of The Oldie has an article by David Horspool comparing the WWII novels of Lev Grossman (Stalingrad), recently published for the first time in a complete English translation, and Joseph Heller (Catch 22), recently adapted into a … Continue reading
Iris Murdoch Centenary Marked This Week
This week is the 100th anniversary of novelist-philosopher Iris Murdoch’s birth in 1919. It will be marked by a Centenary Conference at St Anne’s College, Oxford this weekend (13-15 July). A later conference is scheduled on 10-11 October at the … Continue reading
Summer Solstice Roundup
–A new biography has been written of Lord Beaverbrook, primary model for Lord Copper in Waugh’s novel Scoop. This is reviewed by Richard Davenport-Hines in the current TLS. The review opens with this: There have been previous biographies of the … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Black Mischief, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged American Greatness, Amherst College, Charles Reich, Christopher Sykes, Lord Beaverbrook, Mallory's Camera, Theodore Baird, TLS
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Early June Roundup
–In the current issue of TLS, Michael Caines reviews a short book of poetry parodies entitled Poets Cornered by Mark Handley: Via chronological hops the collection proceeds from Chaucer (“to Spayne the pilgrims wende / A wholly blysseful suntanne for … Continue reading
Memorial Day/Late-May Bank Holiday Roundup
–In a recent two-part article on the non-denominational religious website Patheos.com, the morality of the nuclear bombing of Japan is reconsidered. The article is made up of a collection of the views expressed on the moral and religious issues arising … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auberon Waugh, Decline and Fall, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Sword of Honour
Tagged Daily Mail, HeraldScotland, Patheos.com, Sunday Times, The New Criterion, University of Warwick
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William Boyd’s A to Z of Evelyn Waugh
Lancing College has posted a report of the talk at the college’s annual Evelyn Waugh Lecture given last month by novelist William Boyd. Here’s Lancing’s description of the event: William Boyd, the master story teller, novelist and screenwriter delighted his … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Lancing, Lectures, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Evelyn Waugh Lecture, Ian Fleming, William Boyd
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Cinco de Mayo Roundup
Today is Cinco de Mayo which celebrates the victory of Mexico over the French Empire in 1862 at the Battle of Puebla. The Mexicans lost to the French about a year later but still mark this victory of their smaller … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auberon Waugh, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Robbery Under Law, Sword of Honour
Tagged AtlasObscura.com, Guardian, HumanEvents.com, JSTOR, Religion and Literature, Sunday Telegraph, The Unz Review, University of Texas
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