by The Blunden Family | Feb 8, 2024 | Blog
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...
by The Blunden Family | Dec 21, 2023 | Blog
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...
by The Blunden Family | Apr 1, 2022 | Blog
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...
