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Category Archives: Locations
“Happy Warriors” Reviewed
The play now running at the Upstairs at the Gatehouse Theatre in Highgate involving Evelyn Waugh and Randolph Churchill in WWII Yugoslavia has been reviewed in London Theatre 1. The review is by Loretta Monaco and is, on the whole, … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, London, Theater, World War II
Tagged Happy Warriors, London Theatre 1, Loretta Monaco, Randolph Churchill
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Roundup: A Legacy, a Plaque, 2 Lists and a Mystery
British Heritage Travel Magazine has published a profile of Alexander Waugh entitled “A Legacy Revisited”. This is by Stephen G and is datelined 29 March 2018. It opens with a brief summary of the ongoing difficulties of securing and restoring … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Alexander Waugh, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, London, Men at Arms, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged British Heritage Travel Magazine, Canonbury Society Newsletter, Entertainment Weekly, Gay Kamasutra, Hollywood novels, Islington, ShortList.com, war novels
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Waugh Watering Holes in the News
Two pubs associated with Evelyn Waugh’s life in the 1920-30s have recently been in the news: the Abingdon Arms in Beckley, Oxon., and the Fair View Inn in Llanddulas, North Wales. In one case the news is good, in the … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Events, Newspapers, Oxford, Remote People, Vile Bodies, Wales
Tagged Abingdon Arms Beckley, Daily Post, Fair View Inn, JustGiving.com, Llanddulas (North Wales)
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Brideshead Actress Dies in France
Actress Stéphane Audran who played Cara in the 1981 Granada TV production of Brideshead Revisited has died in France at the age of 85. She was married at one time to new wave film director Claude Chabrol and at another, … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Lectures, London, Newspapers
Tagged Brunel University London, Country Houses, Daily Express, Shakespeare, Spear's magazine, Stephane Audran, Vogue, weddings
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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 Biographer Target of Poison Pen
Paula Byrne, is well known in this parish for her 2009 “partial life” of Waugh, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead. She has also appeared and submitted papers at two Waugh conferences, one of which was notably presented in … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Daily Mail, Jonathan Bate, Paula Byrne, poison pen letters, Richard Brook, Sunday Times
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Powell and Betjeman in Oxford; Greene in September
The Anthony Powell Society has announced that it will hold a conference in late summer at Merton College in Oxford. The subject will be Anthony Powell and the Visual Arts and the dates are Friday 31 August to Sunday 2 … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh, Events, Oxford
Tagged Anthony Powell Society, Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, John Betjeman Society
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Waugh Exhibit in Hampstead Museum
The Hampstead Museum at Burgh House has announced the opening of a small exhibit “on the landing” relating to Evelyn Waugh. Here’s a description from the museum’s website: Evelyn Waugh, the distinguished twentieth century writer, grew up in North End Road, on … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Events, Hampstead, Waugh Family
Tagged Alan Walker, Basil Bourchier, Hampstead Museum at Burgh House
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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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