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T. E. Lawrence Studies List archive
Since 1997 the T.E. Lawrence Studies list has carried a running conversation between people seriously interested in Lawrence. The cumulative archive runs to well over a million words. The selection here omits many postings that had only passing interest, and therefore gives a slightly 'academic' impression - but the archive is intended as a source of information.
The links open chronological files that contain a selection from one month's postings.
Contributors who have published on Lawrence are named. Other contributors are identified by their initials and country, unless they have given permission for their name to be used.
Archive months already online are shown as blue links.
Jeremy Wilson
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As additional archive pages are put online, any new names will be added.
Content
1997
- July: TEL Studies List
1-3; Pre-history 4, 7-9;
Questions 5-6
- August: Deraa 10-13;
Pre-history (contd) 14-15;
Which is the 'best' Seven Pillars 16;
Frivoulous question 17, 19;
Thomas Chapman 18
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Biographies 20; T.E. Lawrence TV profile 21-23, 25; Harry Chase film 24,
26
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Lawrence Biography 27; Lawrence, Liddell Hatt, Tanks 28-35
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Comments on 'The hero who despised himself' by Harold Orlans 36-7
- December: Ocampo-Caillois 38-41; More thoughts on 'The Hero who despised himself' 42, 66; Allegations that Lawrence spied at Carchemish 43-6; The million-dollar question 47-8; Publishers 48a; Childhood beatings 49; Analysis of Lawrence's strategy 50-52, 54-5, 61, 70; Season's greetings 53; Lawrence's reading at the Bodleian 56; TEL discussion 57, 60, 62-4; Early history 58-9; Greetings from Cape Town 65; Two cents... and Bob Lawrence 67-9, 71-2; The Lawrence family 73-4; TEL letters to his brother Bob 75; Bob Lawrence 76
1998
- January: The Lawrence family 77; Turkish books about TEL? 78; Irishness 79; A Few Points 80; TEL discussion 81; Biographical problems 82; Saudi attitudes towards TEL 83; Analysis of Lawrence's strategy 84, 86; Arab reactions to Lawrence 85; Widian and Midian? 87-9; Lawrence and the press 90, 92-3, 102, 104, 106-7, 111; TEL's War records 91; Research enquiries 94, 100; TEL and Leonard Woolley 95; Travel in Middle East 96-8; Use of "Sidi" 99; TEL exhibition at Brown University 101; Railway research 103, 110, 114-19; TEL in Arabic 105, 109; The ranks of the RAF 108; New book 112; About TEL's tactics 113
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T. E. Lawrence chronology
1888 16 August: born at Tremadoc, Wales
1896-1907: City of Oxford High School for Boys
1907-9: Jesus College, Oxford, B.A., 1st Class Hons, 1909
1910-14: Magdalen College, Oxford (Senior Demy), while working at the British Museum's excavations at Carchemish
1915-16: Military Intelligence Dept, Cairo
1916-18: Liaison Officer with the Arab Revolt
1919: Attended the Paris Peace Conference
1919-22: wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1921-2: Adviser on Arab Affairs to Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office
1922 August: Enlisted in the Ranks of the RAF
1923 January: discharged from the RAF
1923 March: enlisted in the Tank Corps
1923: translated a French novel, The Forest Giant
1924-6: prepared the subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1927-8: stationed at Karachi, then Miranshah
1927 March: Revolt in the Desert, an abridgement of Seven Pillars, published
1928: completed The Mint, began translating Homer's Odyssey
1929-33: stationed at Plymouth
1931: started working on RAF boats
1932: his translation of the Odyssey published
1933-5: attached to MAEE, Felixstowe
1935 February: retired from the RAF
1935 19 May: died from injuries received in a motor-cycle crash on 13 May
1935 21 May: buried at Moreton, Dorset