The Society is saddened to announce that Malcom Brown, died on 7th December 2017, after a long period of illness. Malcolm will be remembered by many members, who will have met him and enjoyed his contributions to past symposia.
Malcolm was the co-producer of the important BBC television documentary on Lawrence from 1962. Malcolm, formerly a scholar of St. John’s College, Oxford, also helped Julia Cave produce the BBCs 1986 T. E. Lawrence documentary. He had close links with the Imperial War Museum and wrote and edited several works about the First World War.
His Lawrence-related publications include A Touch of Genius (with Julia Cave, 1988) and T. E. Lawrence (British Library ‘Historic Lives’ series, 2003). He also edited The Letters (1988), and Secret Despatches from Arabia (1991), and contributed to several of the Society’s symposia and the Journal.