ATS Blog
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More new editions
Good news! New Thirkell editions will be available in 2025, with some before the end of 2024. December 24th is the publication date – a bit late for Christmas presents – for “Demon in the House”, “The Duke’s Daughter”, “A Double Affair”and “Close Quarters” . These will be available online from Amazon, priced from £17.99…
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Have you seen this journal?
Angela Thirkell Society (ATS) journal number 44, 2024, has been distributed to all our members, both in the UK and overseas. If you’re a current member of the ATS, and you haven’t yet received your copy, please let one of the committee members know and we’ll put it right. It’s important to keep your contact…
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Regional meetings are taking off!
After a lapse of a few years, since Covid restrictions put a stop to regular in-house meetings, we’re happy to report that regional Angela Thirkell Society meetings are becoming a regular feature once again. In August the Midlands group met in Cheltenham to discuss Wild Strawberries, and enjoy a shared lunch, the odd sherry and…
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Angela Thirkell Society events 2024
We have three Angela Thirkell Society events for members’ diaries. The next meeting of the ATS Midlands Regional group will be in late-August in Cheltenham, where we’ll be looking at “Wild Strawberries“, the second in Thirkell’s Barsetshire series. Any member from anywhere is very welcome, so if you’d like more details please contact us using…
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May Day with the Mackails
How did the Mackail family mark May Day? Both Angela Thirkell and her younger brother, Denis Mackail, recalled the view from their day nursery window in Young Street, Kensington. These extracts are taken from their recollections, “Three Houses” (published by Oxford University Press 1931) and “Where Am I?” (Hutchinson 1948). “Three Houses” – Next to the…
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Members’ library – our latest additions
The Angela Thirkell Society has a free library service for members. Our available books include all of Thirkell’s works – in various editions – biography, criticism, and social history, as well as works by Angela’s sons Graham McInnes and Colin MacInnes. There’s also a complete set of Angela Thirkell Society journals, and most of the…
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Midlands Spring meeting
Angela Thirkell Society members in the Midlands region will hold their Spring meeting in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on March 23rd 2024. Midlands regional meetings were resumed last year (2023) with two well attended events to discuss Coronation Summer, and Marling Hall. In both cases lively conversation ensued, and an excellent lunch. Although termed the Midlands region,…
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Thirkell eBooks – new titles
Exciting news that publisher Open Road Media has released 11 Thirkell titles as eBooks. Titles in the series are Private Enterprise, The Duke’s Daughter, Happy Returns, What Did It Mean?, Enter Sir Robert, Never Too Late, A Double Affair, Close Quarters, Love at All Ages, Three Score and Ten, and The Demon In The House.…
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Denis Mackail at Christmas
Angela Thirkell’s younger brother, Denis Mackail, was an established novelist by the time his sister returned from Australia. In 2022 the Angela Thirkell Society of North America printed the diary of Angela McInnes/Thirkell for the years 1918 and 1919, and this year (2023) published the diary of Margaret Mackail, Angela and Denis’s mother, for the…