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Category Archives: Edmund Campion
Lecture on Tom Burns at LSE
LSE has announced a lecture next Thursday (21 February) on the subject of Tom Burns’ WWII espionage career in Spain. His connection with Evelyn Waugh is mentioned in the announcement: In 1940, Tom Burns, a young British Catholic publisher and friend … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Edmund Campion, Lectures, London, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged London School of Economics, Tom Burns
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Waugh at Campion College, Sydney
The Australian newspaper has posted an article based on the Occasional Address given by Dyson Heydon, a former High Court judge, at the recent graduation ceremony of Campion College in Sydney. He opens with this: Campion College is a small … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Edmund Campion, Newspapers
Tagged Campion College, Dyson Heydon, The Australian
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Sunday Roundup: from Rails to Balls
–The new railroad line from Djibouti to Addis Ababa is featured in a recent illustrated story in the Irish Times. This project was financed by the Chinese and was placed into full operation earlier this year. The service is now … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Black Mischief, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Catholic Herald, Daily Mail, Irish Times, TLS
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Thanksgiving Roundup
–Author William Giraldi contributed an essay to Commonweal magazine as part of a series in which Roman Catholic intellectuals explain why they have left or remained in the church. A Catholic from birth, his article was posted on the magazine’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, Scoop
Tagged Catholic Herald, Commonweal, Daily Express, Literary Hub, Money Week, Stephanie Mann, William Geraldi
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Waugh Letters on Offer
Jonkers Books of Henley-on-Thames has posted an offering of Waugh items. In addition to first editions and signed copies, there are several letters for sale. The first is a batch of 7 (4 short letters and 3 postcards) to Christopher … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Edmund Campion, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged Basil Bennett, Chridtopher Sykes, Jonkers Books, SPB Mais
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Battle of the Oxfords
The regional UK paper Frome Times has announced an upcoming event that may be of interest to our readers: Lutyens’ Mells Park is the venue for a hot debate on Who Was Shakespeare? between biographer and critic Alexander Waugh, grandson … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh Society, Events, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, Clare Asquith, Frome Times
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V S Naipaul (1932-2018) R.I.P.
V S Naipaul, writer of fiction and non-fiction, mostly about third world countries or their natives displaced to other lands, has died in England at the age of 85. His last notable action was to win the Nobel Prize in … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days
Tagged Hawthornden Prize, New York Times, Nobel Prize, Stabroek News, V S Naipaul, Wall Street Journal
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Roundup: Vile Media
The magazine GQ India had an article about Asian-based novels satirizing Asian-based rich people. This opens with a reference to one of Waugh’s novels: It is an unassailable truth that where there is money, a thinly veiled roman-à-clef documenting the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Collections, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catholic Herald, Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, GQ India, Guardian, New Statesman, University of Regina
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Waugh-Themed Visit to Campion Hall
One of our contributors (Milena Borden) made a visit last week to Campion Hall in Oxford. Here is her report: The Secretary, Sarah Grey, arranged an appointment for me with Professor Peter Davidson who is the Senior Research Fellow and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Oxford
Tagged Campion Hall Oxford, Peter Davidson
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Waugh as Biographer, Up to a Point
In this week’s Spectator, the lead book review (“Biography is a thoroughly reprehensible genre”) is by Roger Lewis. In this, he describes a book by James Atlas entitled The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale. Atlas is a literary … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Biographies, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged Christopher Fletcher, Financial Times, James Atlas, Karen Walker, Roger Lewis, Simon Kuper, Spectator, Vogue
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