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Category Archives: Locations
Maggs Bros Exhibit Opens Today
There are additional notices regarding the Maggs Bros. booksellers exhibit of Waugh’s graphic artwork. See previous posts. These appear on the Spectator Life and artdaily.org websites. The Spectator Life article also has several reproductions. The exhibit opens today, 18 July and runs through Friday, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Evelyn Waugh, Events, London, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged artdaily, Maggs Bros. Ltd., Spectator Life
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Waugh and the Hendon Nudists
An article appears in the Londonist (an online magazine devoted to local news about London, past and present) relating to a 1930 incident when a group of nudists chose to sunbathe unclothed at a Hendon lake called the Welsh Harp. This was … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, London, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, Londonist, nudism, sunbathing
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Telegraph Reviews Opening of Waugh Art Exhibit
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibit next week at Maggs Bros booksellers relating to Waugh’s work as a graphic artist, Michael Bird reviews his career in that field in today’s Sunday Telegraph. After describing Waugh’s movement from modernist iconoclast to opponent of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Events, London, Newspapers
Tagged EW Pinxit, Maggs Bros booksellers, Michael Bird, Sunday Telegraph
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Two Openings and a Debut
A Waugh quote opens an article in the South China Morning Post about Djibouti: Not that long ago, Djibouti was known for little more than French legionnaires, atrocious heat and being at the other end of a railway line to … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Hampstead, Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged Djibouti, Elsa Lanchester, Risk.net, Running Past, SCMP, The Scarlet Woman
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Waugh and Wales and Fashion
A recent article in the TLS entitled “Do the Welsh Just Sing?” by Samuel Graydon opens with a quote from Decline and Fall: “The Welsh . . . are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Wales
Tagged Alice Vincent, Charles James, Daily Telegraph, Samuel Graydon, TLS, Welsh literature, Wikipedia
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Waugh Echoes in Kevin Kwan Trilogy
Singapore-born novelist Kevin Kwan has just completed a trilogy of comic novels which began with Crazy Rich Asians in 2013. According to the Seattle Times, the trilogy is set among three intergenerational and ultrarich Chinese families and peppered with hilarious … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Crazy Rich People Trilogy, Daily O, Kevin Kwan, Seattle Times, The Metro, Toronto Star, Victoria "Plum" Sykes
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Waugh Ear Trumpet to be Displayed in Glastonbury
BBC Radio Somerset has interviewed the director of the South West Heritage Trust which recently acquired one of Evelyn Waugh’s ear trumpets. This is Tom Mayberry who is interviewed by Radio Somerset’s Charlie Taylor. Mayberry explains that the ear trumpet is intended to … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Interviews, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio Somerset, Church of St Edward the Confessor Kempley, ear trumpet, Hereford Times, Lygon family, Somerset Rural Life Museum, South West Heritage Trust, Tom Mayberry
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