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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...

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...

NEW

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...

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...
A Gift to Merton College

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...
An Ypres Christmas by Martin Chown

An Ypres Christmas by Martin Chown

I really like these extracts from Undertones of War.  Blunden spent two Christmas periods in the Ypres area, and one near Arras in 1918. If you are in the Ieper (Ypres) area of Belgium when it’s winter, there’s nothing better than a dish of Potjevleesch (a light...
Keeping it in the family – new Blunden website

Keeping it in the family – new Blunden website

Audiences change, their moods and ways of looking at things do too. Edmund Blunden has been in the literary world for over a hundred years and many of his former readers and admirers are now sadly gone. Introducing a new website is a way of presenting his work and...