T.E.Lawrence Studies

A new edition in progress. I completed Lawrence of Arabia, The Authorised Biography in 1989. The full text ran to 1,200 pages – around half a million words. It was published in Britain that year by Heinemann, and in the US by Atheneum in 1990. The New York Times Review of Books ranked it among...
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I am sometimes asked for a list of the Castle Hill Press editions of T. E. Lawrence’s works and letters, already issued and planned for the future. We recently re-thought the structure of the series, so this is a good time for an update. The edition is in three parts: Works Correspondence with writers, bookmen and artists...
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Note: The subscription for this volume closes on Friday 4 March. Prospectus>> Several things have struck me while gathering the texts for Boats for the R.A.F. 1931-1935. First, this is an area that Lawrence’s biographers have, on the whole, left unexplored beyond a bare outline. Some, like Victoria Ocampo and Harold Orlans seem...
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Because of exceptional commitments elsewhere during 2010, I had to scale back a number of activities. One of these was the T.E. Lawrence Studies discussion list, which I moderate. We closed the list temporarily to new members. The subscription is now open again. For details see www.telstudies.org
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The book we are currently working on is a collection of Lawrence’s reports and letters titled Boats for the RAF 1931-1935, to be published in 2011. Lawrence worked on high-speed launches and other types of boat used by the Air Force from February 1931 until February 1935, when his term of RAF...
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In the past, like most self-employed people, I rarely acknowledged that one day I’d have to stop working. I enjoyed excellent health. ‘Retirement age’ was never an issue. That changed in 2006, when I was ill for several months.  I realised that in 2014 – not so far away – I’d be 70. With luck...
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The advance subscription offer for this fifth volume in the T.E.Lawrence Letters series opened on 10 July 2010 and will run until 10 August 2010. Correspondence with E.M. Forster and F.L. Lucas is being issued in an edition of 377 numbered copies, of which 275 will be bound in cloth. Publication is scheduled...
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E.M. Forster was one of the most influential readers of Seven Pillars of Wisdom during the time that Lawrence was cutting down the 1922 ‘Oxford’ text to the abridged version that he issued to subscribers in 1926. Forster offered far more than general praise and admiration. He provided expert criticism of specific writing faults....
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T.E. Lawrence died seventy-five years ago this week. Back in 1985, on the fiftieth anniversary of his death, I was still working on his authorised biography. I remember wondering what the world would think of Lawrence, twenty-five years on. Now we know the answer. Today, Lawrence is in many respects more highly regarded than he...
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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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