ATS Blog
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ALS Book Lovers Fair, Birmingham 2026
Be there, or be quarto! If you’re in Birmingham on Saturday October 3rd 2026, or could be, then drop in to the Birmingham & Midland Institute, Margaret Street, to browse the first Alliance of Literary Societies‘ (ALS) Book Lovers Fair. The event will be open between 10am and 4pm. The Angela Thirkell Society will be…
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ATS OUTING 2026
Thursday 16 July, The Priest House, West Hoathly in West Sussex (RH19 4PP) This year’s Members’ Outing is on Thursday 16th July and will be to The Priest House at West Hoathly in West Sussex. We visited there in 1999, which is not a century ago but feels like it! Photograph of The Priest…
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Thirkell Society in-person meetings
March 7th 2026 is the day that Angela Thirkell Society members will be on the move. Either by coincidence or planning, Saturday March 7th is the day chosen by both Midlands and Southern regional groups for their next in-person meetings. Southern/London group will meet at 2pm at Windmill Road, Wimbledon Common and anyone who’ll have…
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A day among the files
In late August 2025 Hilary Temple and I left Birmingham New Street station by the 8.03am Edinburgh train. Though we may have fantasised, just a little, about staying on it to the terminus we were bound for Leeds and the Brotherton Library, where we’d booked the luxury of two days amongst the Angela Thirkell collection.…
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Secondhand books always available
Looking to buy secondhand editions of Angela Thirkell’s novels? Any reader of Angela Thirkell who’d like to complete their collection is recommended to browse our secondhand book page. Used hardback and paperback editions are donated by members who are downsizing their collections, or sometimes by families wondering what best to do with the books they’ve…
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VJ Day 2025
Following last Friday’s commemoration of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day (15th August) today (17th) sees a quieter, but no less significant and poignant, event by COFEPOW, a registered charity dedicated to perpetuating the memory of the Far East Prisoners of War. The Society’s vice-chair, Penny Aldred, will be in attendance together with her daughter (and our…
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Regional Meetings for the Autumn (2025)
Southern Group The first of the autumn ATS regional meetings will be at Penny Aldred’s home in London. The Southern Group, a disciplined lot, is working its way through the novels in order, and will gather at lunchtime on September 13th to discuss August Folly. More details and directions are available from Penny, her contact…
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2025 ATS Journal delay
If you’re an Angela Thirkell Society member you might have been watching your doormat for the 2025 ATS Journal. Unfortunately there’s been a delay with our printers – a vital machine has lost its “head” and the new one is taking a while to arrive. We’re expecting the Journal to be printed by July 31st,…
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Dates for a Thirkellite’s Diary
Early announcement of 2025 dates for Angela Thirkell Society meetings. From Jutland Cottage, Chapter One “At the moment when our chronicle begins to continue its well-meaning but eccentric (in the scientific sense) way, it was a nasty cold day in early February . But in the Old Rectory all was pretty comfortable owing to the…
