The Open University has announced a free online only conference, 5-7 November 2025
Further details on the website: https://digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/
The deadline for submissions is 20 June 2025

The Open University has announced a free online only conference, 5-7 November 2025
Further details on the website: https://digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/
The deadline for submissions is 20 June 2025


We were sorry to learn, somewhat belatedly, of the death of Society member George Wickes, who passed away last October at the age of 102. A longtime professor at the University of…

We have just received the Spring 2026 newsletter from the Alliance of Literary Societies, the umbrella organisation for literary societies and groups in the UK. It has over 100 member societies, including…

We were delighted to see Colm Tóibín’s recommendation in this weekend’s Guardian of The Good Soldier as a perfect Christmas gift. We would, of course, agree with this choice: The Good Soldier…

A few weeks ago we announced forthcoming exhibitions of works by Janice Biala at Frieze Masters in London and at Galerie Pavec in Paris. Society members might be interested in this article…

A new article by Seamus O’Malley, “One of Those Stupendous Mornings of Human Thought”: Ford’s Cycles of Literary History, has just been published online in the journal Anglo Saxonica. The article discusses…

Society members might be interested in an article “Ford Madox Ford’s Letters, Life Writing, and Editing for a New Era” by Max Saunders and Sara Haslam, which has just been published online…