–Journalist Eleanor Doughty has made a career of writing articles about the British aristocracy. Now she has expanded her writing on the subject into a book entitled Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy. This has just … Continue reading →| The Evelyn Waugh Society
–Some of those around London may be interested in an event planned for Bank Holiday Monday. Here’s a description from the Londonist website:| The Evelyn Waugh Society
Listen to the author reading this blog post. by Kate Woodford Regular readers of this blog often ask us for posts on English idioms used now in contemporary English. One way we make sure we provide up-to-date idioms is by looking at those used in current newspaper articles. The expressions included in this week’s … Continue reading Landing on your feet (Newspaper idioms) The post Landing on your feet (Newspaper idioms) appeared first on About Words - Cambridge Dictionary blog.| About Words – Cambridge Dictionary blog
Jules Witcover, old-school political reporter, author of 20 books and writer of hundreds of columns — including a few for this publication — died Aug. 16 in his Georgetown home […]| The Georgetowner
—The Spectator reviews a new “campus novel”. This is called Seduction Theory and is written by Emily Adrian. Here is the opening paragraph: There is a fine tradition of campus novels that stretches from Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Kingsley … Continue reading →| The Evelyn Waugh Society
While contemporary in its subject matter, the novel offers the good old-fashioned pleasures of prose and plot. Its madcap antics and Waughian wit and wordplay are a joy, and a breath of fresh air in a landscape of contemporary literary fiction that tends to favour either affectlessness or earnestness. Despite Mount having less direct experience with hedge funds than politics, the details of the financial world in The Pentecost Papers, which he credits to multiple sources in the acknowledgemen...| The Evelyn Waugh Society
My friend Mort Mintz died this week at 103. Fittingly, the Washington Post, where we were colleagues for many years, gave him a nice obit, starting on the Metro news front and filling columns inside. It was decent enough, but incomplete. Mort broke into newspapers in St. Louis in 1946…| Eugene L. Meyer
This week on the Nieman Storyboard podcast, I'm excited to sit down with Lane DeGregory, the Pulitzer Prize-winning enterprise reporter for the Tampa Bay Times covering "hope and humanity." DeGregory, whose work has been featured frequently on Storyboard over the years, is now celebrating 25 years at the Tampa Bay Times. She takes us through her process — from connecting with the community, to developing story ideas, and earning the trust of your subjects. She also reveals who inspires he...| Nieman Storyboard
–Novelist Dan Fesperman in LitHub.com discusses five novels which are set in realistic but imaginary places. One of those is Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop: …Waugh’s skewering of Fleet Street, published in 1938, is set in the East Africa nation of Ishmaelia, … Continue reading →| The Evelyn Waugh Society
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Hawthorne Hotel, which has been at the center of so much of Salem’s social and civic life for a century. One thinks of a hotel as a place for visitors, and I suppose that has been the Hawthorne’s primary function, but its hospitality has …| streetsofsalem
This note shares new data on publisher revenue impact from switching off 3rd party ad tracking. In January, the Dutch national broadcaster, NPO, switched off 3rd party tracking ad targeting. NPO has an online video audience of 7.1 million per month, and display reach of 5.8 million per month.[1] Revenue impact I have examined Ster’s revenue figures, … Continue reading New data shows publisher revenue impact of cutting 3rd party trackers| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
–Ferdinand Mount is interviewed in a recent edition of The Times newspaper. This is reported by Johanna Thomas-Corr. Here is an excerpt in which Mount discusses his latest novel: The Pentecost Papers, Mount’s 29th book and 14th novel, is focused … Continue reading →| The Evelyn Waugh Society
–The most interesting item this week is a short essay posted on the literary website Dappled Things by Geoffrey Smagasz. This is called “Orphans of the Storm” and is based on the chapter of that name in Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. Here are the opening paragraphs:| The Evelyn Waugh Society
Remarkably, Churchill read all the newspapers he could lay his hands on—from The Times to the Daily Worker, the British version of which was later renamed the Morning Star. He would do this in bed of a morning after breakfasting off a tray. He often liked to discard sheets of read newspapers on the floor. This infuriated his valet Frank Sawyers, who made a show of disapproval as he picked up the sheets. The post Winston Churchill’s Favorite Newspapers appeared first on The Church...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
Image is from Pexels It might sound unusual, but being dyslexic can be a unique and cool experience at times; let me explain. I was writing a bookish post where, instead of ‘indie,’ I w…| Mybookworld24
–This week’s Sunday Telegraph has an article entitled “The books that every 16-year-old boy should be reading.” This included short selections by several writers, including Simon Heffer who recommends Waugh’s Decline and Fall:| The Evelyn Waugh Society
If you watched STV news between 1972 and 1989 you will almost certainly remember reporter Bob Cuddihy| National Library of Scotland Blog
–The latest edition of The Oldie contains an article that may be of interest. This is by A N Wilson and is entitled “Great War Stories”. Here is the opening paragraph:| The Evelyn Waugh Society
Reader Darlene Crater was kind enough to alert me to a new-to-me digital resource, the California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC). I don’t have California roots, but I do have a few collateral relatives who lived there, so I searched on their names. I was able to download an obituary for one of them, Wayne Horace […] The post Free California digital newspaper archive appeared first on Organize Your Family History.| Organize Your Family History
Americans' Media Consumption Seems to Be Down Across the Board This Year| Marketing Charts
A former reporter of The Marion County Record has settled a lawsuit following a raid on the weekly newspaper last year that garnered widespread attention.| www.nytimes.com
Earlier this week I was up early (5:45am or so) and I was able to watch the most amazing aurora borealis event I’d ever had the chance to witness. In person, they largely looked like grey-green wispy clouds with the occasional hint of purple or blue, but the colours really came out in the photos. … Continue reading Historical Descriptions of Aurora Borealis: “those who did not see it missed a rare sight”| History Research Shenanigans
The real-life case of Daniel Morgan, the private detective murdered 34 years ago in a South London car park, could be Line of Duty’s case for the defence. The independent inquiry into his death features enough elaborate plot twists and cartoonish villainy to keep Ted Hastings busy for another six series.| Source
In the UK we have almost become accustomed to seeing headlines in (mostly) right wing and conservative media about refugees and people seeking asylum that have famously included ‘The Swarm in Our Streets’ and more recently focussed on government plans to ‘stop the boats’. But do these messages, and the values that underpin them, truly […]| CC Foundation
