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Category Archives: Newspapers
Alan Bell (1942-2018)
Yesterday’s Daily Telegraph announces the death of Alan Scott Bell. He was former librarian (1993-2002) 0f the London Library where he oversaw major building projects and computerization. According to an earlier notice on the London Library’s website, his death occurred … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Newspapers
Tagged Alan Scott Bell, Daily Telegraph, London Library
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A Tale of Two Venues: Chagford and Beckley
Two of Waugh’s favorite writing venues have recently been in the news. An article on the Easton Court Hotel in Chagford, South Devon, was recently posted on the website jot101.com. This begins with a description of the facilities in wartime … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford, Vile Bodies
Tagged Abingdon Arms, Easton Court Hotel, jot101.com, Oxford Mail
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Updates: Brideshead Tonite
The Daily Telegraph offers this rather downbeat description in its TV schedules of the 2008 Brideshead Revisited film adaptation: In the light of the 1981 TV version of Evelyn Waugh’s novel, you do have to admire the chutzpah of anyone else giving … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, El Pais, The Oldie
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Philip Roth (1933-2018)
The death was announced earlier this week of the American novelist Philip Roth. Like Tom Wolfe, who died the preceding week, much of his early work was written in the comic, satirical tradition of Evelyn Waugh. So far, however, no … Continue reading
Roundup: Picture This
A remarkable photo of Evelyn Waugh has been posted on the men’s clothing website Voxsartoria. This is from 1950, although the name of the photographer is not given. What is most noticeable about the photo is the lighting on the … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Newspapers, Photographs, Robbery Under Law, Waugh Family
Tagged alamy.com, BBC, Five Books, Jacob Rees-Mogg, The New European, Voxsartoria
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Brideshead at the Mille Miglia
Columnist and humorist writing as Don Alphonso reports in the weblog of the German paper Der Welt about his visit to this year’s Mille Miglia Storica event in Italy. This is an annual vintage car rally based on an auto … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Events, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Der Welt, Don Alphonso, Mille Miglia, Rainer Meyer, vintage car rallies
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Tom Wolfe 1930-2018
American novelist, Tom Wolfe, died earlier this week. He will probably be best remembered for his innovative journalism of the 1960s, 70s and 80s but he also branched into fiction with a satirical novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, in … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Ben Lawrence, Catholic Herald, Daily Telegraph, Die Zeit, Jens Jessen, Tom Wolfe, William Cash
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Waugh, Rex Whistler and the English Martyrs
Peter Hitchens has written an essay entitled “Latimer and Ridley Are Forgotten: A Protestant Understanding of England’s Martyrs.” This appears in the current issue of First Things, a nonsectarian religious journal. He argues that Roman Catholics have more effectively promoted … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Wine in Peace and War
Tagged Brompton Oratory, English Martyrs, First Things, Peter Hitchens, Rex Whistler
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