Adapted from an RAF Museum press release
Lawrence of Arabia’s launch is the last RAF boat to set sail on historic final voyage.
Date: 30 April – 4 May 2010
A Seaplane Tender from the 1930s is to sail around the south coast and up the Thames to complete a display at the Royal...
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Listening to the radio yesterday I heard a scientist (speaking of scientific research) say something that people writing about T.E. Lawrence should keep on their desktop:
“Bizarre propositions get promoted to the status of fact because of repetition.”
Many popular biographies are based on previous popular biographies. Their authors tend to repeat and embellish sensational claims...
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From the Ashmolean Museum Events page
Afternoon Lecture
Lawrence of Arabia: Oxford graduate and benefactor
With Jeremy Wilson
Tues 25 May, 2 – 4pm
Cost: £6.50 (including afternoon tea)
Online booking & payment required
T.E. Lawrence – ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ – grew up in Oxford. He had a passionate loyalty to the Ashmolean and Bodleian. Discover...
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At the British Silent Film Festival yesterday, Neil Brand (as Lowell Thomas) and Luke McKernan (as Harry Chase) gave us a foretaste of what may one day become a full-dress reconstruction of With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia. All they need is luck, encouragement, and… funding.
The film-festival context is a reminder that,...
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See Luke McKernan’s blog for an informative posting about surviving film of T.E. Lawrence.
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On 16 April 2010, as part of the 13th British Silent Film Festival, Neil Brand and Luke McKernan will present their ‘work in progress’ on the recreation of Lowell Thomas’s 1919 travelogue With Lawrence in Arabia. More details
For the original London season, see Lowell Thomas in London, 1919-20
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The first advertisement I have seen for the London performance of the Lowell Thomas Travelogue appeared on 1 August 1919. It reads:
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PERCY BURTON (General Manager for Robert Lorraine, and by arrangement with THE GRAND OPERA SYNDCATE, presents
LOWELL THOMAS
The Eminent American War Correspondent, in his Graphic Description of the British Campaign
With Allenby in Palestine
including the...
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