Newsletter Index 1 – 120

Number 1, not dated

 

Videos from the memorial service and exhibition weekends

Valerie Thompson

Introduction from the editor

Graham N. Simms

Minutes of the inaugural meeting of the T E Lawrence Society

Ingrid Keith (Secretary)

 

 

Number 2, December 1985

 

Meeting of the TE Lawrence Society held at the Gauntlet Restaurant, Bovington Tank museum, 28 Sept 1985

Graham N. Simms

The Hejaz Railway

Jack Duckworth

Letter from Peggy Pollard Lloyd [Asking who was Lawrence’s doctor after his accident?]

Editor

Richard Knowles to publish a book ‘T.E. Lawrence: Book Designer’

Editor

 

 

Number 3, April 1986

 

Lawrence and Captain Butler [text of two letters from Lawrence to Captain R.T. Butler, dated 22 April 1926 & 15 March 1927]

 

 

 

Number 4, August 1986

 

“A Real Good Man” by Jack Easton [who served at Miranshah with Lawrence]

Contributed by Ingrid Keith

The Laying of the Wreath May 18th 1986

Graham N. Simms

‘Not a suitable hobby for an airman’ by Valerie Thompson

Review by Editor

Travels following the trail of T.E. Lawrence in Wales, Lincs. & Yorks.

Ronald Knight

Film Show at the IWM

Contributed by Ingrid Keith

 

 

Number 5, November 1986

 

A Re-enactment [Lawrence and Broughs at Cranwell & Lincoln]

T.E. Crowley

Further travels along the Lawrence trail

Ronald Knight

T.E. Lawrence and the Middle Ages

Klaus Hillingmeier

 

 

Number 6, February 1987

 

Why I Joined the T.E. Lawrence Society

John Pateman

Letter regarding a centenary T.E. Lawrence stamp

Ronald Knight

Lawrence and Corporal & Mrs Jack Easton [letter from TEL to Corporal Easton, 1/4/29]

Editor

‘In the Footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia’ by Charles Blackmore

Editor

Society acquires camera believed once owned by Lawrence

Editor

 

 

Number 7, April 1987

 

Lawrence and Captain Butler [text of two letters from Lawrence to Captain R.T. Butler, dated 22 April 1926 & 15 March 1927]

 

An Actor’s View of Lawrence [on playing the role of Private Meek in G. B. Shaw’s ‘Too True to be Good’].

Sam Dale

Why we Joined the T.E. Lawrence Society

Mrs H. MacDonald (& her mother)

Letter from a 16 year old member

Mark Connelly

The Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal

Editor

The Siddons Collection

Editor/librarian

 

 

Number 8, August 1987

 

Visit to RAF Mount Batten, 25th April 1987

Anon

Lawrence and ‘The Messianic Legacy’

John Pateman

Why I Joined the T.E. Lawrence Society

Winifred Philip

Recollections of serving with Lawrence at Donibristle and Bridlington

R.W. Davis

Transcript of a letter from Lawrence to Mr Walkington, 14.4.28

Editor

A Scottish Holiday with T.E.L.

Ronald D. Knight

Lawrence and the Imperial Camel Corps

Editor

 

 

Number 9, November 1987

 

Committee Matters

 

A Clouds Hill afternoon in Wareham Corn Exchange

Editor

T.E.L. Society gathering at Bridlington

Ronald Knight

Another unsuitable hobby for an aircraftman [RAF Mount Batten badge design]

Anon

Why I Joined the T.E. Lawrence Society

William D. Harrison

Letters to the Editor

P.R. Williams

A Small Crock of Gold at the end of the Lawrence Trail

Ronald Knight

 

 

Number 10, February 1988

 

Stinsford church [event with the Thomas Hardy Society]

Editor

Did he jump or was he pushed? [on the conspiracy theories regarding Lawrence’s death]

Ronald Knight

Letter regarding Lawrence and Andre Malraux

Jane Murray

Letter regarding the design of the Mount Batten cormorant badge

Charles Grosvenor

Lawrence Repositories in the US

Philip O’Brien

 

 

Number 11, May 1988

 

T.E. Lawrence Society trip to Jordan 1989

Editor

The Frampton Connection [family tree]

Ronald Knight

Tree planting at Tremadoc birthplace

Editor

Why I Joined the T.E. Lawrence Society

Ronald Knight

 

 

Number 12, August 1988 (Centenary Edition)

 

Centenary Thoughts

Ingrid Keith

Bovington Weekend, 21-22 May 1988

Editor

An Oxford Afternoon

Dick Crowder

Lawrence Symposium in California

Valerie Thompson & Harold Orlans

Letter to the editor re photograph of Lawrence at Miranshah

Roger Sheppard

Letter to the editor re Chapman family in Ireland & Hugh Junor

Cora Fox

‘Odd Knowledges’ – T. E. Lawrence and the Classics

Marilynne Bromley

Why I Joined the T.E. Lawrence Society

G. R. Ewing

Eastward in Jordan [memories of serving in the RAF 1939-45]

I.A.P. Woolford

 

 

Number 13, November 1988

 

Proposed new group for Wessex region

Anon

T.E. Lawrence Centenary Cycle ride [Wareham to Clouds Hill]

Ronald D. Knight

Moreton, August 16, 1988

George Williams

T.E. Lawrence: The Legend and the Man [Bodleian Library exhibition]

Review by John Pateman

Why I Joined the T.E. Lawrence Society

David Thomson

 

 

Number 14, February 1989

 

British Museum and National Portrait Gallery visits

Molly Old

The T.E. Lawrence Society library

John Pateman

Robert Graves and T.E. Lawrence

George Perry

Why I Joined the T.E. Lawrence Society

Jane Howard

Thoughts on Lawrence blow away the Cobwebs

Nigel Tyndall

 

 

Number 15, May 1989

 

National Portrait Gallery T.E. Lawrence Symposium

Review by John Pateman and Jack Duckworth

Tulip mines

Peter Ridgpath

Lawrence’s Clandestine trip to France!

Ronald D. Knight

Why I joined the T.E. Lawrence Society

Jane Heaton

 

 

Number 16, August 1989

 

Wessex Group News

Khinlyn Fern

Society visit to RAF Mount Batten

George Williams

A Tourist in my Country [describing the Society tour of Jordan]

Nadeem Elissa

Why I joined the T.E. Lawrence Society

Gordon Button

Where was Atwi?

Graeme Douglas

Lawrence and his Motorcycles

Terence Crowley

 

 

Number 17, November 1989

 

Wessex Group News

Arthur Waite

‘Herbert Hodgson: Printer’

Anon book review

Lawrence in Bridlington

Anon

Obituary: Jack Easton [served with Lawrence at Miranshah]

G. Greening

 

 

Number 18, February 1990

 

The Hejaz Railway

Peter Charles Schott

The Abu Galeb Appeal

R. Crowder

T.E.L. and Egypt

Heather Bevans

T.E. Lawrence: as seen by those around him.

Jack Duckworth

Recollections of a posting to RAF Calshot in 1929

Roland J. C. Grimmond

Hunt for the Man Behind the Myth

Reg Read

 

 

Number 19, May 1990

 

Why Worry? [a general article about Lawrence]

Stuart Millson

Recollections of serving at RAF Calshot in 1934

Vic Noble

Collieston and Lawrence’s Cottage

Ronald Knight

A View from my Bedspace [mostly a review of Jeremy Wilson’s Biography of Lawrence]

Norman Hurst

The Simple Posium

Review by Jack Duckworth

 

 

Number 20, September 1990

 

Legendary Footprints in Distant Lands [recollections of three years living in Turkey]

Rita Fairchild

Chairman’s Speech at Moreton Graveside

Ronald Knight

Memories of T.E.L.

Bill Freeth

T.E. Lawrence and Aubrey Herbert

J. Duckworth

A Link with Lawrence [a visit to Georgeham, once the home of Henry Williamson]

Arthur Waite

 

 

Number 21, March 1991

 

Chairman’s Report

Jeremy Wilson

Officers and Committee

 

Retiring Chairman’s Report

Ronald Knight

Retiring Chairman’s Speech

Ronald Knight

Obituary: Mary Ann Vyylyn

Editor

An Oxford Interlude: The Society Symposium at Jesus College

Gordon Button

The London Group

Barbara Saltmarsh

In the Cycle-rims of T.E. Lawrence

N.J. Lynch

T.E. Lawrence: A brief Chronology

 

New home for Society Library

Valerie Thompson

A Sojourn in Jordan

Peter De Markus

 

 

Number 22, March 1992

 

Chairman’s Report

(Jeremy Wilson)

Other News

 

London Group Meetings

 

The Committee

 

 

 

Number 23, July 1992

 

Chairman’s Report

(Jeremy Wilson)

 

 

Number 24, October 1992

 

Chairman’s Report

Jeremy Wilson

Cliveden: a Summer Party

Gordon Button

A Visit to Plymouth

Mo Jones

Bovington Tank Museum

Nicholas Birnie

London Group Events, 1991-2

Nick Lynch

The Story of the Gloucester Group

Christopher Dickenson

Farewell to RAF Mount Batten

Shea Johnson

Abu Galeb

Gordon Button

Listing and Indexing Lawrence’s Letters

Clifford H. Irwin

An Injured Party

Paul J. Marriott

The T.E. Lawrence Society Library

Jeremy Wilson

 

 

Number 25, January 1993

 

Newsletter News [new Newsletter team]

 

Group Reports

 

Society Events

 

‘Tribes with Flags: a Journey Curtailed’ by Charles Glass

Reviewed by Shea Johnson

Lawrence and the Order of the Nile

Ronald D. Knight

 

 

Number 26, April 1993

 

Your Society Needs YOU

Jeremy Wilson

An American Diary

Janet A. Riesman

Colonel Newcombe

by editor Christopher Dickenson

Recommended Reading

Jeremy Wilson

 

 

Number 27, July 1993

 

Scattered Showers, Sometimes Heavy [describing a journey to Dorset by motorbike]

Gordon Button

An American Diary

Janet A. Riesman

The Dorset Weekend

Margo Robertson

Voting Members of the T.E. Lawrence Society as at 10 August 1993

Anon

 

 

Number 28, October 1993

 

Beginnings

Ingrid Keith

The Garden Party

Valerie Thompson

The Boating Party

Shea Johnson

Chairman’s Report

(Jeremy Wilson)

The re-launching of RAF Seaplane Tender No. 206

Fred Murley

An American diary

Janet A. Riesman

Handley Page Bombers of the first World War by Chaz Bowyer

Extracts from content by Mrs J.F. Richards

Ruining Lawrence [the influences of Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia]

Ian Thorne

Crossword

 

 

 

From Number 29 until Number 95 the Newsletters are published quarterly and titled with the season and year of printing.

 

 

Number 29, Winter 1994

 

Lawrence’s 1911 Journey

Nick Lynch

An American Diary

Janet Riesman

Souls, School and Ruskin in September [a group visit to Oxford]

Lisette Pantlin-Handley

Group Reports [including photographs of the Kennington effigy prior to installation]

Various authors

Letter re ‘Ruining Lawrence’ [in Newsletter 28]

Mark Stookey

Lawrence and the Mollisons

Nick Lynch

Ruining Lawrence (concluding part)

Ian Thorne

Crossword solution

 

 

 

Number 30, Spring 1994

 

Memories of a conversation with Pat Knowles

Ernest Parkin

An American Diary

Janet Riesman

Editorial

Chris Dickenson

Letters [responses to Ian Thornes articles]

Mr Norman Hurst, Professor L. Robert Morris

Translation of Latin text on septagonal box at All Souls College

Editor

Group Reports : Dorset, Gloucestershire & North-West England

Various authors

Proposal for 10th Anniversary of TEL Society 1995: Tour to Syria and Jordan

 

 

 

Number 31, Summer 1994

 

Lawrence – in the Wet [a walking Tour of Lawrence related monuments in London]

Steven Schwitzer

Group Reports: Dorset, London & Netherlands

Various

People & new members

Editor

Lawrence and Arabian Nights

Jancis Gissing

‘The Diary of a Journey across the Euphrates’ by T.E. Lawrence

Book review by N.J.L.

Letters

Rita Fairchild, Ian McDonald

 

 

Number 32, Autumn 1994

 

The Chairman’s Report

Jeremy Wilson

Editorial

 

The Courts of Morning

James Buchan

Group Report: Dorset

Margo Robertson

People [including sale of a Brough Superior SS100 in Australia]

 

An American Diary [reporting from the TELS Symposium, Oxford]

Janet Riesman

Letters from St. John Armitage & George J. Cross

 

Questionnaire Results

Jeremy Wilson

 

 

Number 33, Winter 1995

 

Committee News

Jeremy Wilson

The Family Photographs of Lady Helen Eliot

George Williams

Letter from Mike Leatherdale [re Brough SS100]

 

Group Report: North-West England

Alan Clegg

People and new members

 

An American Diary [reporting from the TELS Symposium, Oxford]

Janet Riesman

Editorial

 

Making Hay whilst booking sunshine

Bill and Jean Martin

Time runs out for the Knowles bungalow

Margo Robertson

‘The Diary of a Journey across the Euphrates’ by T.E. Lawrence

Book review by H. St. J B. A

The London Group on the ‘Biscuit’ run

Dick Crowther

 

 

Number 34, Spring 1995

 

Committee News

 

Lawrence at the Ashmolean

 

People

 

An Explosive Issue [gun-cotton, its production and properties]

Editor

Collectors Column: W H Smith video ‘Lawrence of Arabia’

N.J.L.

Editorial

 

The Road to Manston

Lizette Pantlin-Handley

Letters from: Ivor Bryant, Jan Gissing, Jack Duckworth

 

Group Reports: Dorset, Gloucester, Netherlands

Margo Robertson, Chris Dickenson, Raymond Van Haelst

 

 

Number 35, Summer 1995

 

The 10th Anniversary Luncheon

Gigi Horsfield

Book Review: ‘Meinertzhagen’s Diary Ruse: False Entries on T.E. Lawrence’ by J.N. Lockman

Reviewed by Jeremy Wilson

The Chairman – Stateside in Washington D.C.

Stuart Eisen

Committee News

 

Editorial

 

Four Letters to a Judge [TEL to Mr James J. Judge]

George Williams and Chris Dickenson

Group Reports: Dorset, Mid-Atlantic USA

Margo Robertson, Shea Johnson

Letters from: Mr R A Chamberlain, Mr St John Armitage

 

People and new members

 

The Tenth Anniversary Essay Competition

 

 

 

Number 36, Autumn 1995

 

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust

Michael Carey

The Tenth Anniversary Tour of Syria and Jordan. Part I

Steven Schwitzer

People [re Arthur Russell]

 

Collectors Column

H.St. J. A.

Editorial

 

Chairman’s Report

Nicholas Lynch

Letters from: Mr J.N. Lockman, Mr Ronald Knight

 

Group Reports: Dorset, Eastern States (formerly mid Atlantic)

 

The Huntington Conference

Philip Kerrigan

 

 

Number 37, Winter 1996

 

Clouds Hill c.1941 [a sketch]

Knowler Edmonds

Corrections

 

Editorial

 

Lawrence and Meinertzhagen [analysis of two unpublished letters from TEL to Meinertzhagen]

Jeremy Wilson

People and new members

 

Letter from Stuart Eisen

 

Group Reports: Dorset, Eastern States, N-W England

Margo Robertson, Alan Clegg

Collectors Column

 

The Tenth Anniversary Tour of Syria and Jordan. Part II

Steven Schwitzer

Restoring Lawrence – an interview with Robert Harris

Gary Crowdus & Alan Farrand

 

 

Number 38, Spring 1996

 

People

 

Parallels

Chris Dickenson

Lawrence Letters sell for £53,000

 

Obituaries: Frederick Murley and Lisette Pantlin-Handley

M.R. and C.D.

Lawrence and Northfield

St John Armitage

Editorial

 

Letters from: Ryoko Yagitani, Mr St J. Armitage, Ronald W Sheffield

 

Group Reports: Dorset, Eastern States (USA)

 

The Tenth Anniversary Tour of Syria and Jordan. Part III

Steven Schwitzer

 

 

Number 39, Summer 1996 (Symposium Special)

 

Symposium Programme

 

Membership News

 

Obituary: Roland Hammersley, DFM

 

Publications

 

The Newsletter: New editor takes over

 

New members

 

Letter from Ronald D. Knight

 

 

 

Number 40, Winter 1996

 

The Fourth Biennial Symposium – a report

P.A.C.

Chairman’s Report Presented at the Symposium

Nick Lynch

Peter Hopkirk’s Lawrence Collection at Sothebys

Editor

Sotheby’s sell Lawrence Clothing

 

News from Overseas and London Groups

 

New Members

 

Ave atque vale to Chris Dickenson as editor

Peter Clayton

Lizette Pantlin-Handley 1921-1996

Margo Robertson

 

 

Number 41, Spring 1997

 

T.E. Lawrence: Photographer in the Wilderness of Zin

Rupert L. Chapman and Shimon Gibson

Some comments on the Tenth Anniversary Tour of Syria and Jordan

H St John Armitage

The London Group Trip to France [1906-1996]

Nick Lynch

Discovering Lawrence in Cambridge

Anna C. King

Mount Batten Farewell

George Williams

Dorset Group activities in 1996

Margo Robertson

 

 

Number 42, Summer 1997

 

T.E. Lawrence and his Cameras

W.D. Hackmann

Locating ‘The Judgment of Paris’ [Location of a house/photograph of Lawrence in Thurlestone, Devon]

Gerald Wasley

An American Visitor in Polstead Road

Thomas Ware Griffin

A T.E. Lawrence Puzzle Solved

Allan Cooper

Dorset Group Report

Margo Robertson

New Members

 

Greetings from member Harry J. Mallon in Florida

 

Who’s that there, and when and where was it?

Anon

Lawrence and the ‘Biscayne Baby’ [re a letter from T E Shaw to Major Colin Cooper, 19 June 1930]

Peter Clayton

 

 

Number 43, Autumn 1997

 

Dead on Time – The Ghost Train [& a poem by the author]

Selwyn Russell Jones

T.E. Lawrence in the Salerooms

Peter A. Clayton

TEL Society Garden Party

Gigi Horsfield

North-West Branch Still Going Along

Alan Clegg

 

 

Number 44, Winter 1997/8

 

Arthur Russell 1904-1997

Khinlyn Fern

Report on the Society’s Annual General Meeting, 1997

Gigi Horsfield

Chairman’s Report

Nick Lynch

More TEL in New Bond Street

Peter A. Clayton

T.E. Lawrence’s Postcard to Rex Engelbach

Khinlyn Fern

Dorset Group Report

Margo Robertson

Information Please [re Flt. Lt. Richard Playne Stevens]

Terry Thompson

Netherlands Group Report

Raymond Van Haelst

New Members since Newsletter 42

 

 

 

Number 45, Spring 1998

 

T.E. Lawrence (Aircraftsman Shaw) as I knew him

Sydney E. Catt

Demolition of a Ghost Train

H. St John Armitage

Mount Batten update

Peter Browne

Lawrence’s birthplace for Sale

Jonathan Bridgland

A plaque for Myrtle Cottage

Nick Lynch

‘Pots and People that have shaped…’ by Maureen Mellor

Reviewed by Peter A. Clayton

 

 

Number 46, Summer 1998

 

Whatever happened to C.F.C. ‘Scroggs’ Beeson?

A.V. Simcock

A Self-Conscious Masterpiece [on the 1922 text of Seven Pillars]

Hugh Leach

A Question of Iconography [on an anonymous portrait of TEL]

Ernest Parkin

T.E. Lawrence and Sydney Catt

St John Armitage

Dorset Group Spring Report

Margo Robertson

Can You Help? [request for information]

Nedra McCloud

Obituary: Dr J. Sherlicker

Margo Robertson

 

 

Number 47, Autumn 1998

 

Joyce Knowles 1909-1998

Editor

End of an Era – the Knowles collection is sold [auction in Dorchester]

Khinlyn Fern

T.E. Lawrence and his Arabic teacher, Farida el Akle

Peter A. Clayton

Mixed biscuits: A report on events around the country

Khinlyn Fern

Western Regional Group, USA

Editor

TEL Memorial Stone

Editor

T.E. Lawrence – A motorcycling legend

Khinlyn Fern

New Members Since Newsletter 47

 

 

 

Number 48, Winter 1998

 

Lieutenant-Colonel F.G. Peake Pasha [sale of medals]

Editor

Report on the Society’s Annual General Meeting

Jon Bridgland

Symposium Report

N. J. Lynch

Chairman’s Report

(N. J. Lynch)

Dorset County Museum presents Lawrence and The Arab Revolt

Khinlyn Fern

 

 

Number 49, Spring 1999

 

Leslie Robert Webb 1905-1998 [served with Lawrence at Cranwell]

Khinlyn Fern

News from Moreton

 

Lawrence to Mrs Lionel (Patricia) Curtis

Peter A. Clayton

Three New Books

Philip Kerrigan

TEL à la poche

Gigi Horsfield

A Reply to Hugh Leach’s Review of the 1922 text of Seven Pillars of Wisdom

J. N. Lockman

Group Reports: Dorset, London, Netherlands, Western Regional Group (USA)

Margo Robertson, Malcolm Wright, Anon, Bob Archibald

 

 

Special news-sheet, Summer 1999

 

London Group – a Visit to Paris

Janet Crowder

Dorset Group – Summer Visit to Wareham

Margo Robertson

Western Regional Group, USA

Bob Archibald

Netherlands and Belgium Group

Maarten Schild

New members since Newsletter 48

 

Lawrence by Michael Sutty fine china

 

 

 

Number 50, Summer 1999

 

“Lewis and Stokes”

William Spencer

A Lawrence sale at Phillips in Glasgow and in London

Peter A. Clayton

Captain W.M.L. Escombe and his autographed copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom

 

Report of the second meeting of the Western Regional Group, USA

Bob Archibald

Correction

 

 

 

Number 51, Autumn 1999

 

The Society Visit to Lebanon and Syria 9th-20th September 1999 (Part 1)

Dick Crowder

Local Groups News

 

Greetings from Bournemouth [naming of the Lawrence Lecture Theatre at Bournemouth University]

 

Chairman’s Report

Chris Dickenson

New Committee and New Members

 

Introducing the National Trust’s curatorship of Clouds Hill

James Grasby

Letters from: Godfrey C Runyard and Bob Simson

 

Reprinting of Newsletter No. 1 from 1985

 

 

 

Number 52, Winter 2000

 

The Society Visit to Lebanon and Syria 9th-20th September 1999 (Part 2)

Dick Crowder

Western States Symposium “Images of Lawrence”

Robert L. Archibald

Groups and New Members

 

Dutch and Flemish Group

Dirk J. Tang

Japan Group Meeting

Ryoko Yagitani

Letter from Ronald Knight [re South Hill, Dorchester Museum and a play entitled ‘Amateurs All: Thomas Hardy and T.E. Lawrence]

 

 

 

Number 53, Spring 2000

 

T.E. Lawrence Exhibition at Bovington Tank Museum

 

Thinking aloud [re a permanent exhibition celebrating Lawrence’s life]

Chris Dickenson

U.S. Western Region Group news

Bob Archibald

Content of the sixth biennial symposium “Reflections and Projections.”

 

New Members

 

Link to Sydney E. Catt article [currently at: www.ivorcatt.com]

 

London Group Outing to William Morris Gallery

Dick Crowder

Dorset Group

Colin Spurway

The Society’s Clouds Hill Support Fund

 

Lawrence’s Birthplace [news re backpacking hostel]

 

Committee News

 

London Group at the Union Jack Club [George Williams donation of items for a display in the ‘Lawrence Room’]

 

 

 

Number 54, Summer 2000

 

Lawrence at Bournemouth [Society presentation of items to Bournemouth University]

Editor

Content of the sixth biennial symposium

 

Western Region Group, U.S.A: 5-6th May Conference at Santa Clara University [a write-up on the presentations].

Bob Archibald

Dutch and Flemish Group Meeting

Dirk J. Tang

Dorset Group [21st May event]

Colin Spurway

Meeting the National Trust

Editor

Membership Survey Results

Editor

The T.E. Lawrence Society Clouds Hill Support Fund

Editor

 

 

Number 55, Autumn 2000

 

The Oxford Symposium 2000: A Participants View

Jeremy Wilson

Notes from the AGM at St Johns College, Oxford 24 September 2000

Editor

Notes from the Committee meeting held in Oxford, 21 October 2000

Editor

Statement of accounts for the year ending 30 June 2000

 

A Visit to Lawrence’s Dorset

Robert Schutte

The T.E. Lawrence Society Clouds Hill Support Fund

Editor

London Group visit to Normandy/Northern France retracing the 1910 cycle tour of Ned, Frank and Will Lawrence, July 2000.

Dick Crowder

Group News

 

Knights in White Satin: Kennington and Lawrence

Sian Williams

 

 

Number 56, Winter 2001

 

‘Tuum’ is returned

Editor

Matters arising…

Editor

London Group Summer Expeditions 2000 – Part 2  T E Lawrence and the Farnborough Connection

Dick Crowder

Visit to Cambridge – Saturday 12th August 2000

Dick Crowder

Western Group, U.S. Joint meeting with the Churchill Society

Bob Archibald

London Group End-of-Year Luncheon

Dick Crowder

Dorset Group visit to Dorchester Museum

Colin Spurway

Forthcoming events

Editor

New Members

Editor

Notes from the Committee meeting held in Oxford, 20 January 2001

Editor

 

 

Number 57, Spring 2001

 

London Group British Museum Visit: Lawrence at Carchemish

Dick Crowder

London Group Events 2001

 

Dorset Group News & Events

Colin Spurway

Khinlyn Fern 1951-2001

 

Western Regional Group, U.S.A.

Bob Archibald

Obituary: Edwards Huntington Metcalf

Bob Archibald

Warriors and War Gods: The work of Eric Kennington (1888-1960)

L.F.B.

News from the Far East

Yagitani, Ryoko

Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship

 

Sale News: Seven Pillars of Wisdom [1922 and 1926] and a portrait of Dahoum by Francis Rodd

 

Lawrence papers at the Bodleian

Jeremy Wilson

Notes from the Committee meeting held in Oxford, 28 April 2001

 

 

 

Number 58, Summer 2001

 

News from the Dorset Group [meeting at Moreton, 11 August]

Editor

Forthcoming Dorset Group events

Ronald Knight

An Unexpected Benefit [re the Earl Portarlington, Viscount Carlow and T E Lawrence].

Margo Robertson

News from the London Group. Visits to the IWM, Duxford and Devon – The Biscuit Run

Dick Crowder

News from the Japan Group

Yagitani, Ryoko

Western Regional Group, U.S.A. Summer meeting

Bob Archibald

Auction of the 1922 Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Paul F. Helfer

Elegy for T.E. Lawrence

Bill Coom

 

 

Number 59, Autumn 2001

 

An impromptu birthday party [inside St Martins, Wareham]

Margo Robertson

From the Chair: A Please for Help

Philip Kerrigan

The T. E. Lawrence Society Western Regional Group, U.S.A.

Bob Archibald

London Group visit to RAF Cranwell

Richard Crowder

Dorset Group A Day Out at Cracknore Hard – 16th September 2001

Margo Robertson

The Lawrence of Arabia Walking Trail

Ronald Knight

 

 

Number 60, Winter 2002

 

Hedjaz stamps transferred to the British Library

Philip Kerrigan

News from the Dorset Group (Meeting with the Hardy Society)

Ronald Knight

The London Group – end of year luncheon

Dick Crowder

Speakers & subjects for the seventh biennial symposium, Exeter College, Oxford

 

The World War I graves of Frank and Will Lawrence

Peter Harrison

Colonel Lawrence of Arabia – Why he went into the Air Force (from 1937)

Mrs Frank Doubleday

Book information (Andrew TP Norman: Unravelling the Enigma)

Editor

Siegfried Sassoon Conference

Editor

 

 

Number 61, Spring 2002

 

Pre-symposia event: A workshop on David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia, led by Jeremy Wilson

Editor

London Group visit to Reading University, and planned ‘Lawrence in Essex’ event

Dick Crowder

Dorset Group News [Ronald Knight regretfully resigns as co-ordinator]

Editor

Website news

 

Provisional programme for 2002 Symposium at Exeter College

 

Modern stylists by Arnold Bennett, from the Evening Standard, 14th April, 1927.

 

New display at Clouds Hill

Margo Robertson

Notes from the committee meeting held in Oxford 27th Oct. 2001

 

Notes from the committee meeting held in Oxford 19th Jan. 2002

 

Index to T. E. Lawrence by his Friends

 

 

 

Number 62, Summer 2002

 

Lawrence on display [British Military Powerboat Trust open day at Marchwood]

Colin Spurway

A visit to Moreton House

Ronald Knight

Dorset tea and cakes at Moreton

Margo Robertson

London Group visit to Essex 13th July 2002

Richard Crowder

US Western Regional Group latest meeting news

Bob Archibald

A visit to Lawrence’s birthplace

Carol Darbyshire

A racehorse called T E Lawrence

Peter Metcalfe

Desert encounter

Mr T Lawrence [no relation]

Testimony [the author’s interest in T.E. Lawrence]

W. Duncan MacPhail

Book news: First to Damascus by Jill, Duchess of Hamilton

St John Armitage

Publicity for T E Notes

 

Notes from the committee meeting held in Oxford 11th May 2002

 

 

 

Number 63, Autumn 2002

 

A toast to the T.E. Lawrence Society!

 

London Group re-creation of the Lawrence’s London walk

Nick Lynch

Meeting of the North West Group

Carol Darbyshire

London Group Visit to the Palestine Exploration fund 16th Oct 2002

Dick Crowder

T.E. Lawrence Society Symposium report

Jeremy Wilson

The water tank at Clouds Hill (text by the late Khinlyn Fern)

Yvonne Argent

Notes from the Annual General Meeting, Oxford 15th Sept 2002

 

 

 

Number 64, Winter 2003

 

Cheers! at the new Clouds Hill Tavern [Bovington]

Margo Robertson

The Society Fund for Clouds Hill

 

Lawrence’s other Hill: Pole Hill at Chingford

Peter Read

Notes from the committee meeting held in Oxford 13th July 2002

 

Notes from the committee meeting held in Oxford 16th Nov. 2002

 

Letter from Lorraine Tinsley, Toronto, Canada [re a sword claimed to have once been owned by Lawrence]

Editor

Our Leopard is Loose, a poem

Graham Chainey

 

 

Number 65, Spring 2003

 

AGM 2003, provisionally booked for Moreton Tea Rooms, Moreton, Dorset Sat 27th September

 

London Group – Visit to the Imperial War Museum

Richard Crowder

Meeting of the North West Group, Sunday 16th March

Carol Darbyshire

Members of the Japan Group at a meeting in Kobe

 

“Books and a cuppa” [Yvonne Argent invite to Banbury]

 

T.E. Lawrence Society Local Groups

 

Notes from the committee meeting held in Oxford 8th Feb. 2003

 

The passing of a final witness [the death of Frank Fletcher]

Margo Robertson

Award for Clouds Hill exhibition

 

New Clouds Hill guide

Jeremy Wilson

The Schneider Trophy

Susan Purver

Lawrence’s landscapes [publication of Seven Pillars of Wisdom as Geography by Ian Brookes]

 

Restoring Lawrence’s Clouds Hill, and the Clouds Hill Support Fund

Jeremy Wilson

 

 

Number 66, Summer (2003 left blank)

 

Desert transport, old and…vintage! [camels and 50 vintage cars in Jordan]

 

North West Group meeting held on 3rd August

Michael Chapman

Ozone Odyssey [a visit to Bridlington]

Carol Darbyshire

Notes from the committee meeting held in Oxford 27th May 2003

 

Collectors corner, including Recent publications and Comment by St. John Armitage [on a new issue of The wilderness of Zin]

 

The T.E. Lawrence Symposium 2004 will take place on 25th/26th September, St Johns College, Oxford

 

 

 

Number 67, Autumn 2003

 

One hundred, ninety, eighty and seventy years ago

 

Annual General Meeting [Moreton, Dorset]

 

Obituary: Bob Archibald

 

A birthday celebration at Tremadoc

Carol Darbyshire

London Group visit to the Public Record Office at Kew

Richard Crowder

Some thoughts on the Society’s Symposia

Jeremy Wilson

Provisional programme for the 8th biennial symposium

 

New publications and Other news

 

Notes from the committee meeting held in Oxford 9th Aug. 2003

 

Notes from the AGM, Moreton, Dorset, 27th Sept. 2003

 

Statement of financial activities

 

The Committee of the T.E. Lawrence Society 2003-2004

 

 

 

Number 68, Winter 2004

 

The “Cloister” and the plunge pool, Pole Hill

Dick Crowder

Meeting of the North-West Group, 25th January 2004

Carol Darbyshire

Sea on three sides – a visit to Mount Batten

Susan Purver

Letters to the Editor

Godfrey Runyard and Cindy Runyard

Notes from the committee meeting held in Oxford 22nd Nov. 2003

 

“A habitation intended to be most ordinary is really most strange” [Clouds Hill, in Simon Jenkins’ England’s Thousand Best Houses]

 

Lawrence’s last motorcycle on display

 

Auction news, New Publications and Other news

 

Provisional programme for the 8th biennial symposium

 

 

 

Number 69, Spring 2004

 

One hundred, ninety, eighty and seventy years ago

 

Important change in the Symposium programme

Jeremy Wilson

Meeting of the North West Group, 21st March 2004

Carol Darbyshire

London Group visit to Bridlington, 1st and 2nd May 2004

Dick Crowder

North West Group visit to Bridlington, 8th and 9th May 2004

Carol Darbyshire

Notes from the committee meeting held in Oxford 28th Feb. 2004

 

New Books, etc.

 

The T E Lawrence Society 2004 Symposium provisional programme

 

The T E Lawrence Society Library, Oxford and the T E Lawrence Society Collection at Wareham Library

 

 

 

Number 70, Summer 2004

 

New Editor for the Newsletter

 

Introducing the new editor

Carol Darbyshire

News from the Dorset County Museum

Ronald Knight

Remembrance and renewal

Margo Robertson

Collectors Corner

 

Birthday greetings and celebrations from Wales

Carol Darbyshire

Snowden Lodge provokes controversy

Carol Darbyshire

Notes from the committee meeting held in Oxford 12th June 2004

 

Notes from the committee meeting held in Oxford 7th August 2004

 

Speeding along the information superhighway

Jeremy Wilson

Symposium news and Revised programme

 

 

Number 71, Autumn 2004

 

John E Mack and St John Armitage

 

The 2004 Symposium – a personal view

Jeremy Wilson

What’s in a name? [Lawrence Unit named at Bridlington hospital]

Carol Darbyshire

Augustus and Gwen John Exhibition

 

London Group visit to William Morris’s ‘Red House’, Bexleyheath

Richard Crowder

News from the Far East

Ryoko Yagitani

Notes from the AGM, St John’s College, Oxford 26th Sept. 2004

 

 

 

Number 72, Winter 2005

 

Seven Pillars Exhibition in Antwerp

Raymond Van Haelst

London Group – end-of-year luncheon

Richard Crowder

Western States Group

Linda Archibald

Man charged with causing the death of Dr Mack

 

Dorset Group – Christmas Lunch

Ronald Knight

Eulogy for a lady [Mrs Olive Bessant]

Margo Robertson

Plymouth loses Lawrence landmark

Matthew Coniam

Events, Collectors Corner, Books and Letters

 

Notes from the committee meeting held in Oxford 22nd Jan. 2005

 

 

 

Number 73, Spring 2005

 

70th Anniversary of Lawrence’s death. 20th Anniversary of the T E Lawrence Society

 

Beginnings [the start of the Society, related by its founder]

Ingrid Keith

Memories of Corporal Catchpole

Charles Eyles

Western States Group – The California Symposium

 

New path to Lawrence’s grave

 

‘Eminently Suitable’ [on the retirement of Clouds Hill custodians Mike and Frances Chapman]

Margo Robertson

Dorset members [Peter & Ann Mills] move to New Zealand

 

Snowden Lodge, Tremadoc [planning application refused]

 

The Race Lives On [Brough Superior vs. Bristol fighter]

Dave Lochead

New Books

 

 

 

Number 74, Summer 2005

 

T.E. Lawrence Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum

 

‘Lawrence of Arabia: The Life, The Legend’

Jeremy Wilson

The California Symposium at the Huntington Library

 

A 70th Anniversary Commemoration

Ronald Knight

Play Review – The Warrior and the Poet, by Ray Sargent

Peter Leney

Lawrence’s printer immortalised in Cricket Classic

Richard Watkins

A unique aircraftman

Chris Boxall

Why we have stopped selling books

 

Snowden Lodge wins planning appeal

Carol Darbyshire

Collectors Corner and New Books

 

 

 

Number 75, Autumn 2005

 

New committee at the Lawrence of Arabia Exhibition, Imperial War Museum, London 15th October 2005

 

The IWM Exhibition

Carol Darbyshire

British Military Powerboat Trust – Latest News

Colin Spurway

Annual General Meeting, held at the IWM, London 15th Oct. 2005

 

The Society’s 9th Biennial Symposium, St. John’s College 22-24 Sept. 2006. Provisional programme

 

Moreton Plaque

 

Driver in John Mack accident sentenced

 

Snowdon Lodge – the third birthday event

Elayne Franklin

Blackwell’s event [a talk by Malcolm Brown]

Susan Purver

Play review – The Doll Tower by Ronan O’Donnell

Carol Darbyshire

Letters

From Mr Godfrey Runyard

Collectors Corner and New Books

 

 

 

Number 76, Winter 2006

 

Dorset Summer Event Saturday 24th June

 

Lawrence of Arabia – His statue

Anita Lafford

Symposium at The Huntington [held October 8th 2005]

Charles Eilers

Wadi Rum Visitors’ Centre [built 2004]

Ruth Caswell

North west Group Meeting

 

Lecture on Hejaz Railway [given by James Nicholson]

Peter Danby-Smith

Letters [re sentry duty in Newsletter 74]

Norman Hurst

Comments on the IWM Exhibition

Gerald Wasley, Mike Savage, Andrea Ansorge

Lee University Symposium [Tennessee, USA]

 

IWM one-day Symposium Sat 11th March 2006

 

New Books

 

 

 

Number 77, Spring 2006

 

End of IWM Symposium

 

Changes on the Committee

 

A Successful Exhibition [Imperial War Museum]

Ann Carter

Views on the IWM Exhibition

J. M. et A. Delchambre

Arthur Russell’s Seat in Moreton Cemetery

Ronald Knight

Society Events

 

IWM Symposium

Ian Heritage

TEL Tennessee [review of the Lee Symposium, see No. 76]

Susan Williams

Plan to form new Central Group in England

 

Meeting Clouds Hill’s New Curator

Ronald Knight

A Memory of T.E. Lawrence

Bill Norton

Letters

 

Collectors’ Corner [sale of sound effect tapes]

 

Events, Places & Films

 

 

 

Number 78, Summer 2006

 

A Message from the Chairman

Julian Wilson

Changes to Membership Secretary’s Role

Peter Leney

Summer Event [Dorset, 24th June]

Pieter Shipster

The Responsible Warrior

John E. Mack

North West Group Meeting

C.D.

Western States Group

L.A.

Japan Group

Yagitani Ryoko

Letters [books from Clouds Hill, myths of TE and Henry Williamson, death of William Roberts, aged 105]

Jennifer Gradidge, Margo Robertson, Anne Williamson & Albert Thomas

Events [Ray Sergent’s play The Warrior and the Poet]

 

The Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship

 

New Books

 

 

 

Number 79, Autumn 2006

 

The Society’s Ninth Symposium, St John’s College

 

Society Events for 2007

 

Treasurer [Ken Parkinson stepping down]

 

Denis McDonnell dies [publisher of T. E. Notes]

 

The 2006 Symposium

Various contributors

Annual General Meeting, held at St John’s College, 24th Sept. 2006

 

The Long Ride Home – Part One [re-tracing TEL’s cycle trip from Bridlington in Feb 1935]

Derek Norwell

Great Arab Revolt Project

Neil Faulkner

Seven Pillars and a Shakespeare First Folio

David Sedgwick

More auction news [estates of H.W. Bailey & Dr Lionel Dakers]

 

 

 

Number 80, Winter 2007

 

Society Events

 

Archaeology of the Arab Revolt

Ian Heritage

Two Lawrence lectures at St Antony’s College, Oxford

John Butler

T.E. Lawrence Symposium, Huntington Library, California

 

RAF Hendon Event

 

Sale of Lawrence items 15th November 2006

David Sedgwick

Dorset Group Christmas Lunch

Ronald Knight

The Long Ride Home – Part Two [re-tracing TEL’s cycle trip from Bridlington in Feb 1935]

Derek Norwell

Lawrence’s letter to Martin Grainger, British Columbia, July 1929

Ron Penhall

New Books

 

 

 

Number 81, Spring 2007

 

RAF Hendon Event, 18th August 2007

 

A tour of Welsh Crusader Castles; 100 years after Lawrence

Derek Norwell

Life with a Bedouin family in Syria

Megumi Yoshitake

Another newspaper fable [inaccuracies in Daily Mail article on Lawrence and Henry Williamson]

Anne Williamson

Visit to Cranwell

Pieter Shipster

Events

 

News [Siegfried Sassoon’s MC medal found]

 

Collectors Corner [Lawrence’s ‘Revolt’ scrapbook still for sale]

 

Letters [Sir Dighton Probyn wasn’t the first Crimean VC]

Peter J.S. Mill

 

 

 

 

Number 82, Summer 2007

 

A Day at Max Gate – Saturday 12th May

Ian Heritage

Memories of Lawrence in the Middle East and later in Britain

Col. Nigel Duncan

Book Review. Georgina Howell, Daughter of the Desert [Gertrude Bell]

C.P. Jennings

The Huntington Symposium, California

 

Letters [disputed itinerary for Welsh cycling trip]

Mr J. F. Darycott

Events, Plays and News

 

 

 

Number 83, Autumn 2007

 

RAF Hendon Event, 18th August 2007

Pieter Shipster

Report on Huntington Symposium, California

 

Results of Membership survey

 

Oxford Symposium provisional programme 2008

 

London Group Visit to Amberley Working Museum

Janet R Crowder

Letters [a review of Adrian Greaves’ book, Lawrence of Arabia: Mirage of a Desert War and a letter from Lahore asking for help regarding Lawrence in Waziristan]

Graham Chainey, Omer Salim-Khan

New Books etc.

 

 

 

Number 84, Winter 2008

 

Society visit to RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, Friday 16th May, 2008

 

Annual General Meeting – 2nd January 2008 – Chairman’s Report

 

Opening of Australian Light Horse exhibition & memorial

Mal Booth

Provisional programme for Society’s 10th biennial Symposium

 

Full Circle [visits to Polstead Road, Pole Hill and The Cloister]

Maggie Radcliffe

Society financial statement 2007

 

Harold Orlans 1921-2007, A Tribute

Malcolm Brown

The Disputed Sexuality of T.E. Lawrence

John Godl

News

 

Letters [did Churchill move the tank route further from Clouds Hill]

Chris Alexander

New Books and Magazine articles

 

 

 

Number 85, Spring 2008

 

New Lawrence plaque unveiled at Pole Hill

Maggie Radcliffe

T E Lawrence and plane crashes at Mount Batten

Ronald Knight

Provisional programme for Society’s 10th biennial Symposium

 

Mount Batten Connections

Derek Norwell

Letters [on Dr Bob Lawrence’s final years in Swanage]

Margo Robertson

Events, News

 

Collectors Corner [glass negatives of Lawrence at Miranshah sold]

 

 

 

Number 86, Summer 2008

 

RAF Cranwell trip

Carol Darbyshire

Full programme for Society’s 10th biennial Symposium

 

An Italian Connection [the deaths of Lt. Prince and Lt. Spratt in Rome]

Alda de Franceschi

Book review Roses and Rain: A biography of James Elroy Flecker by Heather Walker

Peter Leney

News

 

Collectors Corner [Subscribers Edition sells for $43,750]

 

 

 

Number 87, Autumn 2008

 

AGM Sunday 28th September: Chairman’s & Treasurer’s Reports

Peter Leney & Pat Kennedy

The 2008 Symposium [a write-up of the weekend]

 

Brough Superior Club Event at Clouds Hill

Derek Norwell & Mike Hamilton-Scott

News [death of Jack Duckworth, former Vice Chairman and curator of Clouds Hill]]

 

Collectors Corner [two Lawrence letters for sale]

 

New Books [Japanese version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom]

 

 

 

Number 88, Winter 2009

 

Arrangements for Society trip to Shaw’s Corner, May 2009

 

T.E. Lawrence and the Hejaz – A Very Explosive Railway

Les Tucker

Briefly with Lawrence in Normandy

Ronald Knight

Symposium photographic competition – Runners up

 

A schoolgirls view from the past [an essay on TEL by Irene Lord (the Chairman’s mother-in-law), April 1935]

 

Late News [death of Maurice Jarre]

 

T.E. Lawrence Society Library

 

A Flecker Society?

Heather Walker

Collectors’ Corner [sale of eight of Lawrence’s letters]

 

Events and News

 

 

 

Number 89, Spring 2009

 

Society trip to Shaw’s Corner, May 2009

Peter Leney

T.E. Lawrence in MAD Magazine

Mike Eckman

T.E. Lawrence and the R.A.F. Mount Batten Badge

Ronald Knight

Book Reviews

 

Letters [on giving a Rotary Club talk on TEL]

Maggie Radcliffe

Events [commemorative plaque in Châlus, France]

 

 

 

Number 90, Summer 2009

 

New plaque unveiled in Châlus, France

Peter Leney

Poetry competition and news from Clouds Hill

 

A memory of Richards and Lawrence in Epping Forest

R. McKenzie Smith

Exhibition at Waltham Abbey

 

A ceremony in Rome [a memorial service in honour of the pilots who died in May 1919 flying with Lawrence]

 

T.E. Lawrence: The Genesis of a myth [a symposium in Oldenburg]

 

Collectors Corner [thirteen letters to be auctioned]

 

Photograph Collection [of Lawrence’s funeral and his last Brough]

 

Seven Pillars of Rest? [cabman’s shelter restored by SPoW Trust]

 

Book Review [Robert Ryan Empire of Sand]

Graham Chainey

News

 

 

 

Number 91, Autumn 2009

 

Annual General Meeting, Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey, 26/9/09. Chairman’s Report & Financial Statement

Peter Leney

Eleventh Biennial Symposium, Provisional programme

 

The Making of the Modern Middle East, Conference Report

Philip Neale

Book Review

Graham Chainey

Clifford H. Irwin (1923-2009)

Jack Flavell

News

 

London Group visit to The Liddell-Hart Centre

Richard Crowder

[More] News and New Books

 

 

 

Number 92, Winter 2010

 

A visit to the Palestine Exploration Fund

Ian Heritage

Eleventh Biennial Symposium, Provisional programme

 

Remembering a Queen of the Desert [Gertrude Bell]

Dr. Ray Bishop

Elsa [death of the Moreton churchyard cat]

 

Lawrence in Cairo

Philip Neale

T.E. Lawrence in 1919: a view from Rome [Rennell Rodd]

Nicholas Stanley-Price

A musical quiz [Clouds Hill records kept at RAF Museum Reserve Collection, MOD Stafford]

David Kivleham

News

 

 

 

Number 93, Spring 2010

 

David Sedgwick [bookseller & committee member dies age 63]

 

Moreton Memorial Service. 75th anniversary of Lawrence’s death and 25th anniversary of founding of the Society

Carol Darbyshire

Eleventh Biennial Symposium, Provisional programme

 

A Middle East journey in the footsteps of T.E. Lawrence

Andrew Wright

Lawrence plaque returns to his Oxford school

 

Winston Churchill’s speech at the unveiling of the memorial to T.E. Lawrence at City of Oxford High School for Boys

 

Bridlington to Clouds Hill. Commemorative cycle ride, March 2010. Part One

David Kivleham

News

 

Auction News [sale of a Subscribers Edition and a lost TEL letter to Francis Rennell]

 

Flecker and Firbank Society

Heather Walker

New Books

 

 

 

Number 94, Summer 2010

 

Godfrey Runyard dies, age 104

 

Bridlington to Clouds Hill. Commemorative cycle ride, March 2010. Part Two

David Kivleham

Book Review [Dennis Silk, T.E. Lawrence and Siegfried Sassoon]

Graham Chainey

The Passing of a Warrior King [Richard I at Châlus, visited by TEL in 1908]

Dr. Ray Bishop

Killua Castle

Ronald Knight

London Group event at Cliveden, Sunday May 16th

Philip Neale

New Books

 

 

 

Number 95, Autumn 2010

 

25th Anniversary Dinner Chairman’s speech

 

T E Lawrence Society Symposium, St John’s College, Oxford

Various contributors

Guerrilla Warfare [ a history of guerrilla warfare, mainly Boer Wars]

Dan Little

Twenty Eight Articles and Counterinsurgency

Ron Penhall

Book Review. Lawrence of Arabia by Rodney Legg

Graham Chainey

News [Auction of a Kennington bust of TEL and death of Catherine Aldington]

 

 

 

From Number 96 until Number 105 the Newsletters are published quarterly and titled with the four quarters of the same year.

 

 

Number 96, 1st Quarter 2011

 

Obituary – Ronald Knight

Nicholas Lynch

A lecture on The Legacy of TE Lawrence by Rory Stewart MP

Veronique Thevoz

A Very Difficult Journey [Lawrence’s enlistment in 1922]

Andrew Byford

Book Review. Michael Korda: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

Graham Chainey

Letter [About sexual abuse and its effects, by the author of T E Lawrence, The Enigma Explained].

Andrew Norman

Clouds Hill News [Peter Preen retiring, and news from elsewhere the deaths of Suellen Miller and Eddie Fowler]

 

Auction News

 

 

 

Number 97, 2nd Quarter 2011

 

T.E. Lawrence Exhibition in Oldenburg, Germany

Hartmut Lawrence-Haack

Review of Online Exhibition Lowell Thomas and Lawrence of Arabia

Graham Chainey

Review of James Patrick Hynes: Lawrence of Arabia’s Secret Air Force

Gp. Capt. John Alexander

Let Light Perpetual Shine [A.W. Lawrence and the Scott Polar Research Institute statue]

Alison Jolley

Detractors – a personal view

Carol Darbyshire

Three Photo Queries

 

New Books

 

 

 

Number 98, 3rd Quarter 2011

 

What’s in a Name? [The WW1 medals of Frank Helier Lawrence]

Robert N. Smith

A Query [Request for information on Rex Ingram]

Dr Ruth Barton

Auction News [1962 Lean film posters sells for £18,750]

 

Traces of Lawrence in Lebanon and Syria, March 2011

Philip Neale

Jerusalem, the Biography: by Simon Sebag Montfiore

Philip Neale

Visit to the Subscribers’ Edition printing sites, June 11th 2011

Nick Lynch

News

 

New Books

 

 

 

Number 99, 4th Quarter 2011

 

AGM Jesus College, Oxford. Saturday 12th November. Chairman’s Report and financial statement

Peter Leney

London Group visit to Oxford, 11/12th November

Nick Lynch

Provisional Programme for 12th Biennial Symposium

 

Possible origins of a ‘Souvenir’ at Clouds Hill [the candelabra]

Cliff Wood

Lt. William George Lawrence (1889-1915)

Norman Hurst

The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival

Peter Leney

Cologne Exhibition

Hartmut Haack

Book Reviews of A line in the Sand by James Barr and Empire of Sand by Walter Reid

Philip Neale

Letter [re bicycle on display at the Oldenberg Exhibition]

Peter MacDonald-Card

News

 

Auction News [two Lawrence letters auctioned]

 

 

 

Number 100, 1st Quarter 2012

 

Society News

 

Provisional Programme for 12th Biennial Symposium

 

Lawrence’s 1906 Bicycle Tour of Brittany

Peter Hendrick

Lawrence’s Bicycle

Alan Payne

More thoughts on Lawrence’s Bicycle

Peter Mc Donald-Card

Lawrence as a Symbol for Modern Policy

Ivor Bryant

T.E. Lawrence drawing in Tenby Museum

Philip Neale

Book Review. Guerrilla Leader: T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt by James J. Schneider

Graham Chainey

Obituary – Andre Guillaume

Christophe Leclerc

News [from Alda Defranceschi]

 

Auction News [Subscribers Edition to be auctioned]

 

New Books

 

 

 

Number 101, 2nd Quarter 2012

 

Symposium News

 

Provisional Programme for 12th Biennial Symposium

 

Spring Event at the Scott Polar Research Institute

Alison Jolley

“Life is all motor-boats still…” a magazine advertisement showing Lawrence?

Philip Walker

Aircraftman Shaw in Northwich – March 1934

Andrew Wright

T.E. and The Dead Woman’s Stone

Ivor Bryant

London Group events

 

New Books

 

 

 

Number 102, 3rd Quarter 2012

 

Launch of Society DVD [of the Pearman slides]

 

Final Programme for 12th Biennial Symposium

 

T.E. Lawrence rides South into Medieval France

Ray Bishop

Book Review: T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt by Joseph Berton

Graham Chainey

Yvonne Argent: Obituary

Ivor Bryant

T.E. Lawrence in 2093 [Parallels with a new film Prometheus]

Philip Neale

News

 

Auction News [sale of a cheque by TEL as J H Ross, and letters]

 

 

 

Number 103, 4th Quarter 2012

 

AGM 2012 News

 

Treasurer Report and Notes for Society Accounts 2011-12

Philip Neale

T. E. Lawrence Society Symposium, St Hilda’s College, Oxford

Various contributors

Letter [re a private viewing of John’s 1919 portrait of TEL]

from David Kivleham

David Williams-Ellis commissioned sculpture of T. E. Lawrence

Carl Borum

Obituary – Philip Kerrigan (1922-2012)

Peter Metcalfe

The T. E. Lawrence Society Library

Alan Payne

New Books

 

 

 

 

 

Number 104, 1st Quarter 2013

 

Lawrence in Japan [Chairman interviewed by Japanese TV]

Philip Neale

Card Images of Lawrence’s World

Ray Bishop

Some Glimpses of Lawrence [Ten less common references to TEL]

Graham Chainey

Obituary – Catherine Kennington (1927-2012)

Nick Lynch

Long lost Photograph of ‘George VI’ [a Brough Superior]

 

Review of Lawrence of Arabia: The Man and the Myth

Graham Chainey

Lawrence of Almeria [David Lean’s Aqaba location]

 

Letters [recollections of Iraq in 1919/20]

from Dan Little

New Books

 

 

 

Number 105, 2nd Quarter 2013

 

Unknown photograph [of TEL] surfaces after 96 years

 

Lawrence’s Dorset and AGM, Wareham, 21-22 Sept 2013

 

Lawrence of Arabia: A Guide to Improving Security for Resource Companies

Jason Thomas

A Brief Note on Brough

Ray Bishop

London Group News – Visit to Norwich

Nick Lynch

News

 

 

 

Number 106, 3rd Quarter 2013

 

T.E. Lawrence Society AGM, Wareham, 21 Sept 2013. Chairman’s Report, Treasurer’s Report & financial statement

 

London Group visit to the British Museum

Nick Lynch

AGM Weekend – Lawrence’s Dorset [visits to Clouds Hill, Wareham, and Worbarrow Bay near Arish Mell]

Alan Payne

T.E. Lawrence Society 13th Symposium provisional programme

 

Society event in Portsmouth and Hythe, 23rd August 2013

Philip Neale

On Re-reading Aldington

Graham Chainey

Two Proposed Sculptures of Lawrence at Tremadog and Bridlington

 

News

 

Sale and Auction news for Lawrence related items

Philip Neale

Book Review – The Battle for Syria by John D Grainger

Philip Neale

New Books

 

 

 

From Number 107 until Current (2018) three Newsletters are published per year, titled Spring, Summer and Autumn and the year of printing.

 

 

Number 107, Spring 2014

 

T.E. Lawrence Society 13th Symposium provisional programme

 

Sale of medal groups belonging to Lt-Col F.G. Peake, Maj-Gen A. G. Dawnay, Col. W. F. Stirling and Lt-Col. W. A. Davenport

Peter Clayton

Peter O’Toole (1932-2013)

 

Another look at those Crusader castles

Ray Bishop

On re-reading Aldington – three views [in response to NL 106]

Ron van den Enden, Peter Metcalfe & Mark Calderbank

A Few More Glimpses of Lawrence

Graham Chainey

News [incl. incomplete Subscribers SPoW sells for £42, 160]

 

New Books

 

 

 

Number 108, Summer 2014

 

‘Lawrence of Arabia’ stamps issued

 

Newsletter Editor changing

Carol Darbyshire

The Great Arab Revolt Project. Report on the penultimate season

Ian Heritage

The remains of Tooth Hill Camp

Carol Darbyshire

Liberating Syria, one archeological site at a time…

Franklin Lamb

London Group visit to Wheathampstead and Ayot St. Lawrence

Nick Lynch

Auction News

 

Letters [sand and gravel extraction near Clouds Hill]

Ivor Bryant

News [new excavations at Carchemish, letters stolen from the PEF]

 

New Books

 

 

 

Number 109, Autumn 2014

 

AGM 2014 News

 

AGM 2014 Chairman’s Report

Philip Neale

AGM 2014 Membership report

Michael Oldfield

AGM 2014 Treasurer’s Report & financial statement

Carol Darbyshire

T.E. Lawrence Society Symposium, St Johns, Oxford

 

An Introduction and Notes: Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Pieter Shipster

T.E. Lawrence: A Brief Chronology

Alan Payne

Answers on a postcard…[Mr G.S. Hynes and the ‘Lawrence of Arabia Society’]

Alan Payne

News from Clouds Hill

Alison Gayle

Auction News [Gen Allenby’s SPoW sells for £62,000]

 

New Books and New Film

 

 

 

Number 110, Spring 2015

 

Committee News

 

Forthcoming Events

 

London Group Report

Nick Lynch

‘T.E. Lawrence in Lincolnshire & Yorkshire – 2015’ [Proposed event]

Andrew Wright

48 Hours in the company of T.E. Lawrence and “Scroggs” Beeson: 12th, 13th and 14th August 1906

Raymond Van Haelst

Late News [recent death of Paul Helfer]

 

Book Review

Graham Chainey

Book News

 

T.E. Lawrence at Karkemish, 1911-1914: results of the Turco-Italian excavations in the expedition house

Silvia Di Cristina & Nicolo Marchetti

2 Polstead Road, Oxford

 

The Archaeology of Lawrence of Arabia Conference Report

Pieter Shipster

Obituary – Nicholas A Birnie

 

News

 

 

 

Number 111, Summer 2015

 

Letter from the Editor

 

Day Meeting and Society AGM at the Shuttleworth Collection

 

London Group News

Nicholas Lynch

John E Carter (1936 – 2015)

Philip Neale

Photographs of Egypt and Palestine from 1914 to 1918

 

T.E. Lawrence in Yorkshire & Lincolnshire – 2015 [Proposed event]

Andrew Wright

New Lawrence Books and Articles

 

Lawrence Sculpture goes on Show in Bridlington

Alison Jolley

Donations

 

T.E. Lawrence Society Symposium provisional programme

Philip Neale

Our Man in Damascus [from photojournalist Tom Duggan]

Alison Jolley

Thirtieth Anniversary of the T E Lawrence Society

(Ingrid Keith)

Anniversary Events in Dorset

Alan Payne

Bovington Commemorates Lawrence

Valentine Simson

Lawrence Birthplace, Tremadog, North Wales

Harriet Coates & Carol Darbyshire

Motorcycle helmets – Lawrence’s crash legacy

 

Saleroom Roundup – £90,000 estimate for Lawrence Dagger

 

Chapman Family Ring

 

Lawrence and Mrs Flecker

Heather Walker

Obituary – Paul Helfer

Joe Berton

Lawrence’s Book Collection – Scandals in Bohemia?

 

What’s New at Clouds Hill

Alison Gale

Book Review. Lawrence of Arabia’s Clouds Hill by Andrew Norman

Graham Chainey

 

 

Number 112, Autumn 2015

 

AGM 2015 News

Harriet Coates

Chairman’s, Membership Secretary’s and Treasurer’s Reports

Philip Neale, Louise Walker and Carol Darbyshire

London Group News [Re-tracing the 1907 cycle tour of Wales]

Nick Lynch

Thoughts on an Edwardian Colour Print

Ray Bishop

Society Opposes Quarrying Plan for Moreton

 

2 Polstead Road [Listing application on hold]

 

A tribute to Omar Sharif (1932 – 2015)

 

From Hythe to the Hejaz [visiting Medain Salah and Petra]

Spencer Hall

Châlus celebrates the Life of Lawrence of Arabia

Harriet Coates

Some news from the United States

Joe Berton

Auction News [Lady Scott’s silver-gilt dagger sells for £122,500. Warwick James’ SPoW sells for £35,000]

Alison Jolley

Sharing Lawrence’s Music Collection

Barry Marshall

Book Reviews [T E Lawrence and the Red sea Patrol and Young Lawrence: A Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man]

Philip Walker & Graham Chainey

New Books

 

Forthcoming Exhibition [at Newark National Civil War Centre]

 

 

 

Number 113, Spring 2016

 

Chairman’s Report

Philip Neale

T.E. Lawrence Society 14th Biennial Symposium provisional programme

 

T.E. Lawrence in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire

Louise Walker

Clouds Hill and 2 Polstead Road [re listed status]

Alan Payne

Mount Batten Tower and T.E. Lawrence Trail

 

The first Draft of Seven Pillars and the Playful Lawrence

Ron van den Enden

The Paul Helfer Sale at Christies, New York, December 8, 2015

Joe Berton

Auction Round-Up

 

Recollections of Aircraftman Shaw [from George Poulter]

Laurie Poulter

London Group News

 

New Books

 

Lawrence of Magdalen: An exhibition at Magdalen Coll.

Philip Neale

Professor Mary Bryden (1953-2015)

Jeremy Wilson

Hugh Leach (1934-2015)

 

Letter to the Editor [re Lawrence’s ‘unpaid’ Baron’s Hotel bill]

From Charles Eilers

Book Review: A life of David Garnett by Sarah Knights

Philip Neale

 

 

Number 114, Summer 2016

 

Andrew Wright Honoured by Royal Geographical Society

 

T.E. Lawrence Society Symposium provisional programme

 

Trekking in the Footsteps of Lawrence [in Jordan]

Louise Walker

Hugh Leach OBE

 

London Group News

Nick Lynch

2 Polstead Road and the Moreton Quarry Campaign

Alan Payne

Culture Minister bars export of ‘Iconic’ dagger

Alison Jolley

Auction News [Siegfried Sassoon’s SPoW sells for £32, 582]

 

A Lasting Memorial [Moreton grave renovation]

Harriet Coates

Marking the 81st Anniversary of Lawrence’s Death

 

Lawrence Week at Clouds Hill

Alison Jolley

The Wilderness of Zin – 100 years on

Ian Heritage

Lawrence and Swallows and Amazons

Colin Glover

The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund

Alan Payne

Lawrence on the Stage [Ross, The Man with the Gold & Lawrence after Arabia]

 

Letters [Lawrence in Donibristle, Scotland?]

Karen Lawrie

New Books

 

 

 

Number 115, Autumn 2016

 

AGM 2016 Report

Philip Neale

Membership and Treasurer Reports

 

T E Lawrence Symposium, St John’s College, Oxford [review]

Various contributors

Sir Ronald Storrs: A Man for all seasons

Ray Bishop

Auction News [Lawrence’s dagger remaining in UK]

Alison Jolley

2 Polstead Road, Oxford

Alan Payne

 

 

Number 116, Spring 2017

 

Summer Event: Visit the National Civil War Centre’s Shifting Sands exhibition

 

Visit to Kelmscott Manor and Society AGM

 

“An old fashioned country town” [A walk around Uxbridge]

Ian Heritage

Obituaries: George R. Williams. Lowell Thomas Jr

 

Secretary of State rejects application to list 2 Polstead Road

 

Book review: The Boy in the Mask by Dick Benson-Gyles

Review by Pieter Shipster

Letters [on private press printing and TE in Fife, Scotland]

Richard Knowles, Mark Reed

Letters from Baghdad opens in theatres this spring

 

Sir Ronald Storrs: An afterthought

Ray Bishop

New Books and Members Requests

 

 

 

Number 117, Summer 2017

 

Visit to Kelmscott Manor and Society AGM

 

The Society Remembers Jeremy Wilson

 

Jeremy Wilson: an appreciation

Nick Lynch

Jeremy Wilson: Major Achievements

 

Jeremy Wilson: Members Tributes

Various contributors

Blue Mist Discovered

 

Peter Metcalfe (1931 – 2017)

 

Lawrence’s dagger at the National Army Museum

Alison Jolley

The Curious Case of T.E. Lawrence’s Military Sidearm

John Seeger

The Society Library at Wareham

Alan Payne

From Desert to Dorset – Lawrence Commemorations at Clouds Hill

 

Marking the 82nd Anniversary of Lawrence’s Death

 

WW1 Postcard Souvenirs of Egypt

Ray Bishop

A Look Between the Covers of T.E. Notes

John Gadd

Plymouth Remembered

Philip Walker

Jane Leah of Arabia [linked to Macclesfield]

Simon Leah

Auction News

 

Book Reviews

Graham Chainey

 

 

Number 118, Autumn 2017

 

Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo

Ray Bishop

London Group News: ‘Painting and Sculptures’ walk

Nick Lynch

London Group News: Visit to the British Library

Nick Lynch

100th Anniversary of the taking of Aqaba [by camel from W Rum]

Julian Woodall

Lawrence at the Paramount

Josiah Marineau

AGM Chairman’s Report

Philip Neale

AGM Membership Report

Louise Walker

AGM Treasurer’s Report

Carol Darbyshire

A Society visit to HSL102 and Myrtle Cottage

Ian Heritage

Peter Metcalfe Obituary

 

Book Review

Graham Chainey

Gaza and Palestine Exhibition – Wrexham Museum

 

 

 

Number 119, Spring 2018

 

News from the Editor

 

T.E. Lawrence Society 15th Symposium provisional programme

 

Auction News

 

T.E. Lawrence Society/Military History Live Jordan tour

Kevin Winter

Visit Planned to Pole Hill, The Cloister and Bancroft’s School

 

Obituary – Malcolm Brown (1930 – 2017)

Philip Neale

Planned visit to Northwich, Cheshire

 

Dorset Branch News

Susan Vincent

 

 

Number 120, Summer 2018

 

New Members

 

Letters

 

Lawrence’s Earliest Account of Motorcycling

Alison Jolley

London Group Report

Nick Lynch

Visit to Pole Hill, The Cloister and Bancroft’s School, April 2018

Ian Heritage

Who was Captain Butler?

Nick Lynch

Lawrence in Comic Books

Gavin Butler

Obituary of John Sims

 

A Member’s Interest [Portrait painting]

Peter Hickman

Society Member gets visit to Buckingham Palace

Andrew Wright

What’s happening at Clouds Hill?

Martin Stephen

Book Reviews: The Kaer of Ibn Wardani by T.E. Lawrence and Behind the Lawrence Legend by Philip Walker

Philip Neale

Dorset Branch News

Susan Vincent

Views of an Antique Land Project

 

A Shy Bird: The US copyright edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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