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Category Archives: Locations
Arcadian Doubts
The latest issue of the magazine of Oriel College, Oxford (The Poor Print) has an article that opens with a passage from Waugh’s first novel, Decline and Fall: ‘You see, it wasn’t the ordinary sort of Doubt about Cain’s wife … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Oxford
Tagged Nicholas Poussin, Oriel College, Sydney Carter, The Poor Print
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Brideshead and Rhodes Must Fall
Timothy Garton Ash, Profesor of European Studies at Oxford and author of several books, mostly about Eastern Europe, has brought Brideshead Revisited into the debate about removing a statue of Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College. The demand for removal was … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Guardian, Oriel College, Rhodes Must Fall, Timothy Garton Ash
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Name Confusion (More)
The BBC has called in Professor of English Literature Valentine Cunningham at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to discuss the issue of name confusion stirred up by the Time magazine flap. They chose Prof. Cunningham, author of British Writers of the Thirties, thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Humo(u)r, Interviews, Oxford, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC, name confusion, New York Magazine, Valentine Cunningham
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Heywood Hill Bookstore Still Thriving
The Mayfair bookstore where Waugh was a customer and his friend Nancy Mitford was a manager is profiled in this week’s New York Times “T” magazine (“Shelf Life” p. 196). This is the Heywood Hill book store, in an article by Sarah … Continue reading
Posted in First Editions, London, Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Heywood Hill Bookstore, Nancy Mitford, New York Times
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Echoes of Waugh in New Morse Prequel Series
ITV in the U.K. is running the third series of its Morse prequel which is concluding this week. This is entitled Endeavour and is based on Morse’s early career in the Oxford police force in the 1960s. There seems to be … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Oxford, Television
Tagged Endeavour, ITV, Lewis, Masterpiece Theatre, Morse, PBS
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Paula Byrne and Philip Eade to Mark Waugh Anniversary
Waugh biographers Paula Byrne and Philip Eade will speak on the author’s life and work at this year’s Oxford Literary Festival. The joint presentation will mark the 50th anniversary of Waugh’s death on 10 April 1966. They will appear on Wednesday … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Oxford
Tagged Kathleen Kennedy, Oxford Literary Festival, Paula Byrne, Philip Eade
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Floreat Bullingdon
The Daily Beast has published an article by Nick Mutch reviewing the history of Oxford’s Bullingdon Club. The private and secretive club has been much in the news lately because of the membership of three leading Conservative Party politicians: David … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Oxford
Tagged Bullingdon Club, Nick Mutch, The Daily Beast
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U and Non-U Updated
In a posting on the academic weblog The Conversation, Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford, Simon Horobin, has updated Nancy Mitford’s 1955 essay on class distinctions of usage in English speech and manners. Waugh’s contribution to the public debate … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Oxford
Tagged Nancy Mitford, New Statesman, Noblesse Oblige, Simon Horobin, The Conservation
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Waugh and the Turtleneck
The latest New York Times Magazine has a story by Troy Patterson predicting the comeback of the turtleneck. Evelyn Waugh figures in the background material. The turtleneck’s introduction as a fashion statement is traced to the 1920s when Noel Coward … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Oxford
Tagged fashion, New York Times, turtleneck sweater
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