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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...
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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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Words for Music by Diana McVeagh

Words for Music by Diana McVeagh

by | Mar 31, 2022 | Blog

In this blog post, Diana McVeagh, author and editor, describes the partnership between Blunden and Finzi, one the wordsmith and the other the composer. Her book, Gerald Finzi’s Letters, contains copies of their correspondence. We are delighted to offer readers her...