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Announcing a new project! The Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford, in 6 volumes.

Ford was a superb letter-writer, and yet the vast majority of his c.3,000 known letters remains unavailable in published versions. The Society is del…

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Farewell from the outgoing Chair, Sara Haslam

On Friday 29 January, the Society Executive Committee met virtually for an event to mark the end of my term of office as Chair. I took over from our …

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Ford and Toulon: Biography, Culture and Environment in the 1920s and 1930s

June 28-29, 2019 Université de Toulon, Ford Madox Ford Society This conference brought together scholars working on Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939), a ma…

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New Society Journal, Last Post, Launched November 27, 2018

Last Post: A Literary Journal from the Ford Madox Ford Society was launched at the Authors’ Club on Tuesday 27 November. Given the unpleasant we…

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The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford

The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford, edited by Sara Haslam, Laura Colombino and Seamus O’Malley, has just been published by Rou…

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Montpellier Conference, Ford Madox Ford and the Other, A Huge Success!

​Sara Haslam writes: The Ford conference this year was held in a warm and sunny Montpellier, at the Université Paul-Valéry, and was organised by Isab…

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Biala: Provincetown Summers

​Provincetown Art Association and Museum presents Biala: Provincetown Summers: selected paintings and drawings. This historic exhibition is…

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Ford Madox Ford and the Other

8–9 September 2017 An International Conference organised by the Ford Madox Ford Society and EMMA (Études Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglopho…

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A Call for Contributions to the Ford Madox Ford Society Website

We are appealing for contributions to our website! We’re looking for notes and information of all sorts. We want people to engage with the website be…

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Editing Modernism/Modernist Editing, Edinburgh Napier, 13 May 2016

Sara Haslam writes:​The projected edition of Ford’s work was one modernist case study featured at this intensive and brilliantly collegial day …

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Happy Birthday, Ford!

Ford Madox Ford was born on 17 December 1873 and, to mark his birthday and the end of a tumultous year, Ford Society Chair Sara Haslam has written a …

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Book Launch: War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End, Modernism, and Psychology

14 October 2015 War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End, Modernism, and Psychology, edited by Ashley Chantler and Rob Hawkes, wa…

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Ford’s The Good Soldier Wins The Cheltenham Booker 1915 at 2015 Festival

​A Report from Alan Judd:The finalists allocated to this year’s Cheltenham Booker (1915) were P.G. Wodehouse’s PSmith, Journalist, presented by Rober…

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Literature at War: H.G. Wells, Ford Madox Ford and their Contemporaries in and around the First World War

19 September, 2015 A report from Ford Society Chair, Dr. Sara Haslam ‘Literature at War: H.G. Wells, Ford Madox Ford and their Contemporaries in and …

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AFTERMATH: the Cultural Legacies of WW1

21-23 May, 2015 The Arts & Humanities Research Institute at King’s, in conjunction with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the Universi…

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Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End and the Yorkshire Country Gentleman

24 March 2015, 7.30pm Rob Hawkes Poppleton Arts Society The Poppleton Centre, Main Street, Upper Poppleton, York, YO26 6JT Ford Madox Ford’s Par…

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Cosmopolis: Ford Madox Ford and the Cultures of Paris

11-13 September 2014 Paris, France Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3Institut du Monde Anglophone 5, rue de l’École de Médecine 75 006 …

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‘Parade’s End – and Ford – Now!’ at BAMS 2014:  ‘Modernism Now!’

26–28 June 2014 Institute of English Studies, University of London This panel considered Ford Madox Ford’s standing – within modernist studies and th…

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