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Tag Archives: Public Schools
Evening Standard’s Waugh Twofer
The Evening Standard reviews a book by David Kynaston and Francis Green of UCL entitled Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private Education Problem. According to the review by Ann McElvoy: What interests these two centre-Left writers is the degree of insulation that … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auberon Waugh, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged Evening Standard, Public Schools
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Roundup: Hat Trick in The Spectator
There is a diverse assortment of cites to Waugh’s works this week, with The Spectator scoring a hat trick in its various editions: —The Spectator has a review of a new book that attacks “modernist” architecture. The book is entitled … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auberon Waugh, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Newspapers
Tagged ANZ LitLover, Catholic Herald, Chippendale, Modernist Architecture, Public Schools, The Spectator
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Downside’s Future Threatened (Updated)
The current issue of The Spectator has an article about the future of the two remaining Benedictine order public schools in Britain. These are Ampleforth in North Yorkshire and Downside in Somerset. A combination of falling enrollments (Roman Catholics are … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auberon Waugh, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Scoop
Tagged Downside Abbey, Paul Manafort, Public Schools, The Guardian, The Spectator, Will Heaven
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Midwinter Thoughts in Australia
This week was winter solstice in Australia and, in connection with that time of darkness and depression, the Sydney Morning Herald ran an article about suicide. The article, by David Astle, opened with this: Evelyn Waugh walked down to the … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Public Schools, suicide, Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, The Times
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Evelyn Waugh in Country Life
Country Life magazine has published a list of 60 things that make Britain great. No. 43 is the public school: Ever since William of Wykeham set up his college for poor scholars in Winchester more than 600 years ago, these … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall
Tagged Captain Grimes, Country Life, Mells Manor, Public Schools
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