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Tag Archives: Cherwell
Earth Day Roundup
–Several other papers have run stories about the sale of Combe Florey House. The most extensive photographic displays are in the Daily Mail and Country Life which also have brief discussions of the Waugh family’s associations with the house. The … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Cherwell, Evening Standard, Literary Hub, Nancy Mitford, Somerset County Gazette, The Spectator, theduran.com
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V-E Day Roundup
–As the observance of the 75th anniversary of V-E Day approaches, the Daily Mail has posted in a slide show a collection of 1945 events that seemed to presage a return to a social system where class status was again … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, World War II
Tagged Cherwell, Daily Mail, Duncan McLaren, Tatler, V-E Day
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Roundup: Audrey Lucas and More
–Duncan Mclaren has added more information to his website concerning Waugh’s friendship with actress and writer Audrey Lucas. This takes the form of an imagined interview of Audrey by Nancy Mitford in advance of the now postponed Brideshead Festival at … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Collections, Newspapers, Oxford, Put Out More Flags, Scoop
Tagged Audrey Lucas, Cherwell, Daily Mail, Duncan McLaren, Express & Star (Wolverhampton), Penguin Books
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The Brideshead Effect
In an article primarily devoted to the new Julian Fellowes dramatic series Belgravia that started a few weeks ago on ITV, The Herald (Scotland) also considers the effect successful costume dramas may have beyond the world of entertainment. As its … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Adamah Media, Cherwell, Coutts, Gentleman's Journal, Harper's Bazaar, InsideHook.com, The Herald (Scotland), Vogue, Winnipeg Free Press
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New Year’s Roundup
–On his weblog Anecdotal Evidence, Patrick Kurp has a posting that quotes and summarizes Waugh’s New Year’s article for Harper’s Bazaar, dated 9 January 1934. Here’s an excerpt: […] Waugh shifts between the personal and national. He had spent the first … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Ronald Knox
Tagged Anecdotal Evidence, Cherwell, Houston, Radio Spada
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Mid-November Roundup
–The Oxford journal Cherwell reviews a current production of Hamlet at the Keble College O’Reilly Theatre. The review opens with a quote from Evelyn Waugh: “Would you not see a hundred Hamlets pottering about Broad Street?” Evelyn Waugh’s question is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auberon Waugh, Complete Works, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Ambrose McEvoy, Cherwell, Daily Mail, OUPblog, The Oldie, Words on Fire
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Waugh Welcomes Students
Several student-oriented papers have quoted Evelyn Waugh in their greetings to students arriving or returning to university studies: —The Times Higher Education Supplement invited advisory Twitter messages to be posted in an effort to make first year students feel welcome. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford, Twitter
Tagged Cherwell, George Orwell, The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, Times Higher Education Supplement
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