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Robert Howard Hodgkin : A History of the Anglo-Saxons

'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 25.3.36
    Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

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6. Charles Stansfield read us one or two extracts from Halliday Sutherland’s “Arches of the Years”. [...]

7. Rosamund Wallis followed with Norah Warne’s [i.e Nora Waln’s] “House of Exile”, giving us a telling description of an aristocratic Chinese household[...].

8. F. E. Pollard then gave us a picture of the personality and work of Russell Pasha from “The last plague of Egypt” — the drug traffic.

9. R. H. Robson gave us a reading from “The Anglo Saxons”, the very recent work of R. H. Hodgkin of Queen’s College, Oxford, a Leightonian of the first generation. [Many of the XII Book Club members were associated with Leighton Park School.]

10. Finally Ethel Stevens read two or three picturesque passages from Duveen’s Collections and Recollections.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson      Print: Book

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