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Blunden’s English Villages – a village connection

The village of Yalding (Kent) was brought to our attention recently when we received an email from Liz Watkin. She is a relative by marriage to Sid Mercer, a Yalding stalwart who Blunden knew well at the start of the twentieth century.    Blunden wrote of his...
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A Gift to Merton College

By Lucy Edgeley and Frances Marquand Doctor Jerome Mellor boarded a flight from Sydney to London in November 2023 with a bust of Edmund Blunden in his hand luggage. Its destination was Merton College, Oxford. The story needs an explanation! When Jerome, as a boy of...
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Blunden’s English Villages – a village connection

The village of Yalding (Kent) was brought to our attention recently when we received an email from Liz Watkin. She is a relative by marriage to Sid Mercer, a Yalding stalwart who Blunden knew well at the start of the twentieth century.    Blunden wrote of his...
Read More

A Gift to Merton College

By Lucy Edgeley and Frances Marquand Doctor Jerome Mellor boarded a flight from Sydney to London in November 2023 with a bust of Edmund Blunden in his hand luggage. Its destination was Merton College, Oxford. The story needs an explanation! When Jerome, as a boy of...
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Taking another look

Taking another look

by | Mar 31, 2022 | Blog

John Greening, poet, critic, playwright and editor of the latest edition of Undertones of War takes a look at Blunden’s literary legacy. ‘That’s where the difficulty is, over there’ From the years following the First World War up until the mid-1950s, although he was...