The Lawrence collections at Magdalen College are still expanding! The Wilson Archive Project is in progress until 2023, and we plan to hold new events tying in to this project.
In this blog, you can find the latest updates on new finds from the Jeremy Wilson Archive in real time as cataloguing is in progress, news on our other Lawrence collections including original items owned by the TE Lawrence Society, announcements on forthcoming events and conferences from the Library and Archives Team, and any other Lawrence-related news we can think of!
Just when I thought that the Wilson archive had yielded all its secrets and there was nothing left to find, late last year I discovered a box containing four mysterious tapes...
The Jeremy Wilson archive contains mountains of press clippings, but amongst these are a number of complete original magazines dating from Lawrence's lifetime. They give an insight into the early twentieth-century world and the…
The author and artist Alexander Maitland will be coming to Magdalen on Wednesday 15th November 2023 to speak on the extraordinary lives of two explorers: T.E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger.
On 31st August 2023, over 80 experts, fans and other interested parties gathered at Magdalen College for a day of talks on "Writing T.E. Lawrence and his World".
Letters in our collections reveal a young Hogarth who is quite different from his usual patriarchal image, driven by his own fierce ambition and a "wandering fever" which he struggled to reconcile with his…
Jeremy Wilson collected ephemera and prospectuses relating to the publication of various books by and about Lawrence and his circle, many of which are beautiful objects in themselves.
In this blog, I usually focus on the stories surrounding the materials that I find in the Wilson collection. Today, I’m going to give a little insight into the processes involved in cataloguing the…
We are excited to announce that booking is now open for Magdalen College Archives' conference "Writing Lawrence and his World: Jeremy Wilson and the Art/Science of Biography".
I recently attended a private view of a new exhibition on Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) and Iraq at Newcastle's Great North Museum. The exhibition, entitled "Challenging Legacies: The Kingdom of Iraq and Gertrude Bell", is…