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Tag Archives: Hugh Trevor-Roper
Waugh and Trevor-Roper: The Annual Dacre Lecture
Waugh Society member and frequent contributor Milena Borden sends this report of her recent attendance at the annual Dacre Lecture in Oxford: Milena Borden was invited to the recent Dacre lecture and dinner at Oxford, where Waugh was among the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Lectures, Oxford
Tagged Dacre Lecture, Hugh Trevor-Roper
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Waugh and his Enemies: Hugh Trevor-Roper
In advance of the lecture (“Waugh’s Enemies”) scheduled for next Monday, 25 September at Hertford College, Oxford, the University of Leicester has posted a brief article about what will surely be one of the topics. This is by Milena Borden … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Lectures, Letters, Oxford, World War II
Tagged Hugh Trevor-Roper, Milena Borden
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Waugh Presentation Copies of More than Usual Interest
York Modern Books has published a list of new arrivals which includes two presentation copies of Waugh’s books of more than routine interest. The first is a copy of Scott-King’s Modern Europe which may have been presented to Waugh’s sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Items for Sale, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Hugh Trevor-Roper, presentation copies, York Modern Books
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Hugh Trevor-Roper on Evelyn Waugh (more)
An earlier post here mentioned the publication of One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper. Standpoint magazine has now published a review of the volume, which it had earlier excerpted. In the review, Paul Johnson, friend (or at least acquaintance) of … Continue reading
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Tagged Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Birkenhead, Paul Johnson
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Hugh Trevor-Roper on Evelyn Waugh
The current issue of Standpoint reprints a 1986 letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper in which he attempts to explain why he and Evelyn Waugh were not, to put it mildly, close chums. HTR (1914-2003) was an academic who first came to … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Letters, Sightings
Tagged Farm Street Church, Frank Pakenham, Graham Green, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Martin D'Arcy, New Statesman, Vatican II
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