Villino Hüffer
For anyone considering a trip to Italy next year, Max Saunders has drawn our attention to the opening in 2027 of MUDEM (Museo della Moneta), the Bank of Italy’s Money Museum, to…
Following in Ford’s Footsteps – Part 2
By Gillian Gustar The Village of Martin and W.H. Hudson In Part 1 of this series, I cited Ford’s comments on visiting Maurice Hewlett, the English historical novelist who he “liked very…
Call for Papers: Textual Embodiments
Society members might be interested in the following Call for Papers for an interdisciplinary conference “Textual Embodiments: Remediating Meaning Across the Disciplines”, taking place at Rome Link Campus University on September 11-12,…
Weird Modernisms Programme Announced
The programme has been announced for “Weird Modernisms”, a major conference organised jointly by the Modernist Studies Association and the British Association for Modernist Studies, to be held at Loughborough University on…
Following in Ford’s Footsteps – Part 1
By Gillian Gustar Whilst working towards my now completed PhD I was afforded the opportunity to contribute a regular column to Last Post. In the Spring 2019 edition I recounted the joys,…
James Baldwin’s “Good Soldier”
A significant copy of Ford’s The Good Soldier has appeared on the market, offering a tangible link between Ford and James Baldwin (1924–1987), one of the 20th century’s most influential American voices:…
George Wickes
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…
Alliance of Literary Societies Newsletter
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…
Collected Letters – Volume One Update
The Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford in six volumes, phase one of a new Oxford University Press edition, The Complete Works of Ford Madox Ford (General Editors Sara Haslam and Max Saunders) is well underway….
Recommended Reading
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…
