Below are outline programmes for each of the Society’s previous Symposia. Click on the links inside each one to download detailed programmes in a pdf format.
St John’s College, Oxford, 26-28 September 2014
Friday 26 September
In the Footsteps of Lawrence
James Dyer with Cadet Warrant Officer Elaine Seow and Cadet Sergeant Henry Terry of 2427 (Biggin Hill) Squadron Air Training Corps
A Lawrence-Inspired Photographic Journey through Syria and Lebanon
Philip Neale
The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion
St Peter’s Players
Saturday 27 September
T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and The Dynasts
Jacqueline Dillion
Arab Memoirs from the Arab Revolt
Dr Eugene Rogan
Filming T. E. Lawrence
Professor James Chapman
Private Press Printing with Reference to T. E. Lawrence
Dr Miles Wigfield
Symposium dinner in St John’s College dining hall
Sunday 28 September
An ‘Acute Attack of Lawrencitis’: Lady Kathleen Scott’s Friendship with the Lawrence Family
Alison Jolley
The Lecture League
Adam Gotch
Fateful Encounter: T. E. Lawrence and Lowell Thomas
Dr Carol Lea Clark
Finding Happiness: T. E. Lawrence in Carchemish
Anthony Sattin
St Hilda’s College, Oxford, 21-23 September 2012
Friday 21 September
Visits to see Lawrence material held at the Ashmolean Museum,
All Souls College and the former Oxford High School for Boys (now the University’s History Faculty)
Lawrence and the Arab Revolt
Showing of the Society’s new DVD
Society Slides: Locations and Landscapes
John Winterburn
Saturday 22 September
T. E. Lawrence by his Friend Vyvyan Richards: The Untold Story
Paul Helfer
T. E. Lawrence: Military Uniform and Arab Robes, Costume and Identity
Joe Berton
Studies in Detraction: Aldington’s Predecessor, Herbert Read
Mary Bryden
The Hejaz Railway – Construction, Destruction, Reconstruction,
Abandonment – The Future?
Mike Schofield
Symposium dinner in St Hilda’s College dining hall
Sunday 23 September
From Arabia to Albania: The SOE service of ‘Stirling the Suave’
Roderick Bailey
Wavell and TEL – A Military and Literary Friendship 1917-1935
Owen Humphrys
T. E. Lawrence and the Iraqi Rebellion of 1920
David Murphy
T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Spring
Noel Brehony
St John’s College, Oxford, 17-19 September 2010
Friday 17 September
Visits to Jesus College and the Ashmolean Museum
The Search for Identity in the Writings of T. E. Lawrence and Sayyid Qutb
Dr Vino Roy
The Journeys of T. E. Lawrence
Alan Payne
Saturday 18 September
Humour in The Mint?
Dr Andrew Williams
Colonel P.C. Joyce and the Arab Revolt
Dr David Murphy
The Jeddah Diary of Captain T. P. Goodchild during the Arab Revolt, 1916
Philip Walker
The Druze and Karaka Revolts of 1910: Prelude to the Arab Revolt
Dr Eugene Rogan
The T. E. Lawrence Society’s 25th anniversary dinner in St John’s College dining hall
Sunday 19 September
T. E. Lawrence and the Tribes
Dr Eveline van der Steen
T. E. Lawrence and the Special Operations Executive (SOE)
Dr Roderick Bailey
Richard Aldington: Lawrence’s Strongest Critic
Philip Neale
St John’s College, Oxford, 26-28 September 2008
Friday 28 September
A day out to Dorset visiting Wareham, Clouds Hill, Moreton and the Tank Museum in Bovington
Saturday 27 September
Charlotte Shaw and Lawrence
Dr Rhoda Nathan
T. E. Lawrence and Brough Superior Motorcycles
Alan Payne
Trains, Trenches and Tents: The Archaeology of Lawrence of Arabia’s War
Dr Neil Faulkner
The Building of the Edwards H. Metcalf T. E. Lawrence Collection
Dr Philip M. O’Brien
Symposium dinner in St John’s College dining hall
Sunday 28 September
T. E. Lawrence and the French
James Barr
T. E. Lawrence and the Garnetts – A Literary Friendship
Philip Neale
T. E. Lawrence and the Imperial Camel Corps
Joe Berton
An Eternal Triangle
Gordon Atkin
St John’s College, Oxford, 22-24 September 2006
Friday 22 September
T. E. Lawrence: Aspects of Collecting
Workshop led by Jack Flavell, Edward Maggs and Dr Philip M. O’Brien
Lawrence After Arabia
Introduced by Malcolm Brown
Saturday 23 September
Cycling in the Early 1900s – Transport, Sport and Pastime
Dr Andrew Millward
1906-2006: Centennial Reflections on Lawrence in Brittany
Professor Peter Hibbert
Dr M. R. Lawrence, and Evangelical Christianity in the Lawrence Family
Dr Michael Griffiths
Lawrence and Maps, 1914-16
Dr Peter Chasseaud
Bumpus & Bumpus Booksellers to HM The King and Champion of
T. E. Lawrence: A Tale of Subscribers, Bindings and Exploitation
Paul Helfer
Symposium dinner in St John’s College dining hall
Sunday 24 September
TEL and DHL: Overlapping Circles; Parallel Lives
Jack Flavell
Lawrence and the Schneider Trophy
Pieter Shipster
The ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ Photographs by Harry Chase, 1918-19
Joe Berton
The Hedjaz Railway Today
The Rev Bob Jackson
Rails to the Arabian Desert
Introduced by Nick Lera
St John’s College, Oxford, 24-26 September 2004
Friday 24 September
Taking Stock: T. E. Lawrence – The Physical Legacy
Workshop led by A. J. Flavell, Dr Philip M. O’Brien and Jeremy
Wilson
T. E. Lawrence: 1888-1935, BBC Television Documentary, 1962
Introduced by Malcolm Brown
Saturday 25 September
The Lawrence Brothers and the Sassoon Cousins – A Tale of Two Families
Paul Helfer
T. E. Lawrence at Carchemish
Jonathan Tubb
What did the Arab Revolt contribute to the Palestine Campaigns? An Assessment
Dr Matthew Hughes
Discussion
Malcolm Brown, John Mack and Jeremy Wilson
Sunday 26 September
Lawrence, Malraux, and the Figure of the ‘Aventurier’
Mary Bryden
‘King of the Pictures’: Eric Kennington and the Subscribers’ Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom – as Art Editor and Illustrator 1921-26
Jonathan Black
‘The Jolliest Things on Wheels’, T. E., His Motor-Cycling and Motor-Cycles
Richard Knowles
Making Lawrence of Arabia – The Battle for the Arab World
James Hawes with George Pagliero
Exeter College, Oxford, 13-15 September 2002
Friday 13 September
‘Lawrence of Arabia’ or ‘Smith in the Desert’ – A Historical Review of David Lean’s Film
Workshop led by Jeremy Wilson
Saturday 14 September
Tall Tales of T.E.L: An Uncritical Romp through Continental European Myths and Legends about Lawrence the Spy
Jonathan Mandelbaum
T. E. Lawrence in The Wilderness of Zin
Sam Moorhead
Discoveries – Early Texts of Seven Pillars
Shea Johnson
A Tale of Two Effigies
Jonathan Black
Sunday 15 September
The RAF in the Middle East and India in the 1920s
David Omissi
The Hedjaz Railway
St. John Armitage
Aircraftman Icarus; or Lawrence and the Golden Goblet
Edward Maggs
T. E. Lawrence’s Friendships with Women
Jeremy Wilson
St John’s College, Oxford, 23-25 September 2000
Saturday 23 September
T. E. Lawrence as Bibliophile and the Disposition of the Clouds Hill Library
Paul Helfer
T. E. Lawrence: Toward a Dialectic of Self and Empire
Susan Williams
Lawrence in London
Jeremy Wilson
Lawrence & Fame: the Spur & Snare
Malcolm Brown
Sunday 24 September
Was T. E. Lawrence Really Related to Sir Walter Raleigh?
Ronald Knight
T. E. Lawrence Collections in the Bodleian Library
Jack Flavell & Anne Dunn
Lawrence’s Landscapes: the Geography of Seven Pillars
Ian Brookes
Research in Progress
Various speakers
Monday 25 September
A day trip to Dorset
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, USA, 5-6 May 2000
Friday 5 May
T. E. Lawrence as Bibliophile and the Mystery of the Disposition of Clouds Hill Library
Paul Helfer
Saturday 6 May
T. E. Lawrence and the Art of War at the Dawn of the 21st Century
George Gawrych, Ph.D.
Lawrence Biography at the Crossroads: Evidence, Speculation, Prejudice, and Invention
Jeremy Wilson
What T. E. Lawrence Got Wrong and Why: Lessons for a New Millennium
James Gelvin, Ph.D.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom in Cipher: Literary Allusions in the 1922 and Subscriber’s Editions
Rebecca Edwards, Ph.D.
T. E. Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis – A Most Peculiar Relationship
Paul Helfer
St John’s College, Oxford, 19-20 September 1998
Saturday 19 September
T. E. Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis: A Most Peculiar Relationship
Paul Helfer
Lawrence’s Many Names and Pseudonyms
Harold Orlans
Armoured Cars in the Middle East
David Fletcher
Service Life: T. E. Lawrence to Charlotte Shaw
Jeremy Wilson
Sunday 20 September
Filming T. E. Lawrence: Korda’s Lost Epic
Andrew Kelly
Lowell Thomas: the Paperboy from Victor
Ian Gourlay
T. E. Lawrence and Elgar’s Third Symphony
Christopher Joyce
Research in Progress
Various speakers
St Hilda’s College, Oxford, 21-22 September 1996
Saturday 21 September
Lawrence’s Oxford
Malcolm Graham
Crusaders and their Squires: Lawrence’s Interest in Brass-Rubbing
Fr Jerome Bertram
Potsherds and Plasticine: Lawrence the Collector
Maureen Mellor
William Morris and his Influence on T. E. Lawrence
Peter Faulkener
Lawrenciana: Riches and Riddles for a Collector
Edward Maggs
Research Projects in Progress
Various speakers
Behind the Genteel Façade
Malcolm Brown
Sunday 22 September
The Wilderness of Zin
Nicholas Lynch
Filling in Time
H. St. J. B. Armitage, CBE
A bus tour including a visit to 2 Polstead Road
Magdalen College and St Hilda’s College, Oxford,
17-18 September 1994
Saturday 17 September
T. E. Lawrence as Leader
Professor John Adair
The Edwards H. Metcalf Collection at the Huntington Library
Dr Philip M. O’Brien
T. E. Lawrence and the Press
Jeremy Wilson
Lawrence on Southampton Water
Fred Murley
Research Projects in Progress
Various speakers
Sunday 18 September
The T. E. Lawrence Letters
Clifford Irwin
T. E. Lawrence by his Friends
Malcolm Brown
A guided tour of Lawrence’s Oxford with Valerie Thompson
Jesus College, Oxford, 22-23 September 1990
Saturday 22 September
T. E. Lawrence’s Friendship with Frederic Manning
Nicholas Birnie
T. E. Lawrence as Archaeologist
Dr Rupert Chapman
T. E. Lawrence’s Correspondence with Charlotte Shaw
Jeremy Wilson
The 1962 BBC Television Documentary
Malcolm Brown
Memories of T. E. Lawrence
Arthur Russell
T. E. Lawrence and the Bodleian Library
A. J. Flavell
T. E. Shaw and the British Power Boat Co.
Adrian Rance
Tale of an ‘Arabian Knight’, the T. E. Lawrence Effigy
Richard Knowles
Sunday 23 September
A Lawrence walking tour with Valerie Thompson