1925 and all that (a handful of Fordian notes)
By Paul Skinner Glancing at any recent headline, it may come as no surprise that some of us are willingly absorbed in another year entirely, precisely a hundred years back. In publication…
Alliance of Literary Societies Event: Writing on Their Stomachs
Writing on Their Stomachs – A Literary Feast Online Event: April 10th 2025 The Alliance of Literary Societies invites you to a mouth-watering Zoom event celebrating the connection between authors and food,…
Call for Papers: ‘Letters and Literature 1500-2025: histories, forms, communities’
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
Now on open-access: all issues of Last Post
All nine issues of Last Post, the journal of the Ford Madox Ford Society, are now digitally available through our ‘open-access’ project. To read or download any of the issues, visit the repository…
Special Issue Humanities Journal on Ford Madox Ford’s War Writing
In this, the centenary year of Ford’s landmark publication of Some Do Not…, the Ford Society is delighted to announce that eight open access articles in this Special Issue are now available to…
Backlisted Ford
The excellent Backlisted, the literary podcast presented by John Mitchinson and Andy Miller, has launched a series of live shows at Foyles in central London. It kicked off with a discussion of The Good…
MHRA Interview
Barbara Burns of the Modern Humanities Research Association talks to Professor Max Saunders (University of Birmingham), Co-Editor of The Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford (OUP), and Dr Lucinda Borkett-Jones, the project’s MHRA Research…
Ford Madox (Hueffer) Ford letters sought!
The editors of the multi-volume Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford for Oxford University Press would be glad to hear from anyone holding letters from (or to) Ford, or about him, or…
Call for Papers: Lisbon, 9-10 November 2023
International Symposium Ford Madox Ford. At the dawn of an era, organised by the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES/CEAU). The conference will be held in a mixed format (on site and…
A New Forest Typo Part 2: The Inhabitants of Lyburn Park
By Andrew Gustar In the first part of this post, I discovered that Branshaw Teleragh – location of Edward and Leonora Ashburnham’s house in Ford’s The Good Soldier – was based on a misprint on…