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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Lowell Thomas in Leicester, 16 April 2010
Lowell Thomas in London, 1919-20
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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Variety is the spice of life…
People sometimes ask if focusing on a single topic – the life of T.E. Lawrence – isn’t a boring task for a subscription publisher.
A single topic? Let’s look at the texts we have worked on since 2008:
In 2008 and 2009 we edited two T.E. Lawrence volumes relating to the Middle East: Military Report on...
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If eBooks rise, what will fall?
I don’t have an eBook reader – at present I wouldn’t have a use for one – but I know people who own and like them. As with all new gadgets, the readers will almost certainly get better as a result of user feedback. Successful models should soon be much cheaper.
Let’s therefore assume that...
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Conference in London, 15 May 2010
Current World Archaeology/Great Arab Revolt Project
One-day conference: Lawrence, the Arabs, and the genesis of modern guerilla warfare
Saturday 15 May 2010
Clore Management Centre
Birkbeck University of London
Bloomsbury
On the 75th anniversary of T.E. Lawrence’s death, three leading academic specialists assess his role in the desert war of 1916-1918 and his ...
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‘The Mint’ and Later Writings About Service Life
In January 1935 T. E. Lawrence visited Augustus John’s studio near Fordingbridge. He brought away a ¾-length drawing of himself in RAF uniform, which he took to London to be reproduced in a half-size facsimile. The 100 copies were to be the frontispiece for a private edition of The Mint, his book about service...
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The “dedication” of T. E. Lawrence’s THE MINT
Successive published editions of T.E. Lawrence’s fly-on-the-wall account of service in the ranks of the Royal Air Force in the 1920s, titled The Mint, have all included, after the title page, what appears to be a dedication of the text to the editor and writer Edward Garnett.
When preparing our edition of ‘The Mint’ and...
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Some thoughts on book design
I believe that the fundamental purpose of a book is to preserve and communicate information (which could be any kind of text or graphic). I do not believe that the physical form of a book should push that fundamental purpose into second place. If that happens, the result loses its moral claim to be...
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Making things simpler….
What this blog is about.
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