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Wilfred Owen Association @wilfred-owen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The 2026 Wilfred Owen Birthday lecture will be delivered on 16 March by Major General Tim Hodgetts, at Edinburgh Napier University's Craiglockhart Campus. The in-person event will be followed with tea and cake, but the talk will also be made available online. Find out more: bit.ly/3ZIs6UQ

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Wilfred Owen Association @wilfred-owen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The Clifton Hotel in Scarborough, where Wilfred Owen stayed in late 1917 before returning to the front line, has been listed for its historic and architectural interest by Historic England. Read More: www.wilfredowen.org.uk/news/article...

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Wilfred Owen Association @wilfred-owen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

25 April 1917, Owen wrote: For twelve days I did not wash my face, nor take off my boots, nor sleep a deep sleep. For twelve days we lay in holes, where at any moment a shell might put us out [...] I was blown in the air right away from the bank... [1/2]

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Wilfred Owen Association @wilfred-owen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

On 25th April 1911, Wilfred Owen wrote to his mother: 'I long to tell you of my good fortune in discovering the house (of Keats)–I will only say now that I saw it, and gaped at it (regardless of people in the window who became quite alarmed, I fancy)–to my heart's content.'

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Wilfred Owen Association @wilfred-owen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

You can now watch the recording of our 2025 birthday lecture, available on our YouTube channel. The lecture was delivered by Professor Elizabeth Vandiver on 'Wilfred Owen's Uriconium: the Site and the City' youtu.be/4a94RNjF6vY?...

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Wilfred Owen Association @wilfred-owen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

There is still time to register for this event, online tomorrow evening.

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Wilfred Owen Association @wilfred-owen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The 2025 Wilfred Owen Birthday Lecture, delivered by Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, will focus on Owen's interest in Roman material culture and the city of Uriconium, and will highlight the city's history and how it inspired Owen's poem, 'Uriconium: An Ode'. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-w...

The 2025 Wilfred Owen Birthday Lecture. March 18th, 7:30 to 9pm GMT. Online.

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Wilfred Owen Association @wilfred-owen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

18th February 1915, Owen wrote to his mother: All winter, all last year and longer I have read no poetry, nor thought poetically (at least not by act of will) [..] thus I have sown my wild oats, that my harvest of poppies may be the more abundant.

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Wilfred Owen Association @wilfred-owen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

"This afternoon is all blanketed in sea-fog, but it is not at all desolate but quite a cosy kind of fog. All the same Scarborough is a moribund place. I would rather the back of behind Edinburgh than all the Front of Scarboro'." - Wilfred Owen, 13th February 1918

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Wilfred Owen Association @wilfred-owen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

4th February 1917, Owen wrote: 'I have no mind to describe all the horrors of this last Tour. But it was almost wusser than the first, because in this place my Platoon had no Dug-Outs, but had to lie in the snow under the deadly wind [...] only one of my party actually froze to death.'

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Ridings of Yorkshire Society @roysociety.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We're delighted to announce that this year's ROYS conference will be held at Scarborough Library, on Friday 6th June 2025. We're seeking papers on any element of Yorkshire's past for the conference, now in its fourth year. Our full call for papers can be found below 👇

JPEG version of the ROYS call for papers. For a plaintext version please email help@ridingsofyorkshiresociety.co.uk

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Wilfred Owen Association @wilfred-owen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The Wilfred Owen Festival will be taking place from 15th - 23rd March 2025, a celebration taking place in his birthplace of Oswestry. You can find out more at: www.wilfredowenfestival.co.uk

An image advertising the Wilfred Owen Festival, March 15th - 23rd. There is also an image of the Wilfred Owen bronze statue by Tim Turner in Cae Glas Park, Oswestry. The statue is covered in a fine dusting of snow, and the park behind is also snow covered. A wreath of poppies is on the base of the statue.

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