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Jeremy Wilson


  • Born 1944, British, married with three children (now adult) lives in Hampshire, England

  • Contemporary historian, writer and editor
    Research Fellow, University of Bristol

  • T.E. Lawrence's authorised biographer; series editor of the T.E. Lawrence Letters volumes; editor of the T.E. Lawrence Studies websites

  • Co-owner with Nicole Wilson of Castle Hill Press, fine-press publishers specialising in editions of T.E. Lawrence's works and correspondence

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Education: 

A-levels: Mathematics, Higher Mathematics, Physics

Balliol College, Oxford, MA: Philosophy, Politics and Economics

London School of Economics and Political Science, MSc (Econ): International economic and political institutions; SSRC research award

Biographical work: 

1975: appointed Authorised Biographer of T. E. Lawrence

1988-9: consultant to the National Portrait Gallery for the Lawrence of Arabia Centenary Exhibition

1995: editor, www.telawrence.info [ongoing]

1997: moderator, T. E. Lawrence Studies List [hosted 1999-2007 by George Washington University, ongoing]

2000: series editor, T. E. Lawrence: Letters [ongoing]

2005-6: joint historical adviser, with Malcolm Brown, to the Imperial War Museum for the exhibition T.E. Lawrence, the life, the legend

2006: editor, www.telawrence.net project [ongoing]

2007: editor of T.E. Lawrence Studies, revived as a peer-reviewed online journal

2008: Website editor, The Great Arab Revolt: A Selection of Contemporary Documents [ongoing]

Books and works edited relating to
T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence Minorities [commonplace-book of poetry] ed. and intro. (pp. 17-50) by J.M. Wilson (London, Jonathan Cape, 1971; New York, Doubleday, 1972)

Lawrence of Arabia [set of slides with a commentary by Jeremy Wilson] (Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, 1976)

T. E. Lawrence, Letters to E.T. Leeds ed. and intro. (pp. ix-xii) by Jeremy Wilson (Andoversford, Whittington Press, 1988)

T. E. Lawrence [exhibition catalogue] compiled by Jeremy Wilson [and others] (London, National Portrait Gallery, 1988; [abridged Japanese ed:] Tokyo, Shinshokan, 1989)

Lawrence of Arabia, The Authorised Biography by Jeremy Wilson (London, Heinemann, 1989; New York, Atheneum, 1990; [French:] Paris, Denoel, 1994. [Author's abridgement as 'concise edition':] New York, Collier, 1992; London, Mandarin, 1992; [Spanish:] Madrid, Circe, 1993; [Chinese] Taipei, Rye Field Publishing, 1995; [German:] Munich, Pail List, 1999; [Arabic:] Amman, 2000

Authorised Biographer by Jeremy Wilson (Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 1989)

Lawrence of Arabia, by Jeremy Wilson  (Sutton Pocket Biographies, Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 1998). Audio edition as Lawrence of Arabia, A Concise Biography, read by Richard Derrington (Oxford, Isis Publishing, 1999). Chinese/English parallel text: (Beijing, FLTRP, 2002) 

www.telawrence.info [reference website] Ed. and principal contributor, 1997- 

T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text, ed. and intro. (pp. xxi-xxii) by Jeremy Wilson (3 vols, Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 1997)

T. E. Lawrence, Introduction to Seven Pillars of Wisdom [parallel texts of the 1924 first proof and the 1926 subscribers' text], ed. and pref. (p. viii) by Jeremy Wilson (Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 1997)

T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a Triumph, 1922 and 1926 Texts [printed in parallel], ed. and pref. (p. v) by Jeremy Wilson (2 vols, Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 1997)

T. E. Lawrence: Letters Vol. I: Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw 1922-1926, ed. by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson; intro. (pp. xiii-xvi) by Jeremy Wilson (Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 2000)

T. E. Lawrence at Clouds Hill [property guide] by Jeremy Wilson (London, The National Trust, 2003)

T. E. Lawrence, Letters Vol. II: Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1927, ed. by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson, foreword (pp. xii-xvi) by Jeremy Wilson (Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 2003)

T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text ed. and pref. (pp. xxi-xxv) by Jeremy Wilson (Library Edition, Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 2003).Trade edition as The Complete 1922 Seven Pillars of Wisdom: The 'Oxford' Text (Fordingbridge, J. and N. Wilson, 2004). French and Japanese translations in preparation.

Publishing the Oxford Text of Seven Pillars of Wisdom (100 copies, privately printed, 2004)

T. E. Lawrence at the Turn of the Century: The Physical Legacy (Fordingbridge, T.E. Lawrence Studies, 2004)

T. E. Lawrence, Letters Vol. III: Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1928, ed. by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson, intro. by Jeremy Wilson (Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 2008)

T.E. Lawrence, Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula, ed. by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson. (Fordingbridge. Castle Hill Press, 2008)

T.E. Lawrence, Towards 'An English Fourth', ed. by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson, (Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 2009)

In preparation:

T. E. Lawrence, Letters Vol. IV: Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1929-1935, ed. by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson, intro. by Jeremy Wilson (Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press about 2009).

T. E. Lawrence: Letters Vol. IV: Correspondence with E. M. Forster, F. L. Lucas, and Frederic Manning ed. by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson, intro. by Jeremy Wilson (Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press)

T. E. Lawrence: Letters from Carchemish, ed. by Jeremy Wilson and Peter Hibbert (Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press)

 

Introductions, and articles in periodicals and newspapers
This list is incomplete

'T. E. Lawrence: Notes for Collectors' (Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, Nos 3-4, April-May 1973, pp. 1-4; 3-6).

T. E. Lawrence Studies [periodical, single printed issue only, edited with contributions by Jeremy Wilson (Leffrinckoucke, T. E.  Lawrence Studies, 1976). Revived as a peer-reviewed online journal in 2007.

T. E. Lawrence, The Mint, with an introduction (pp. 15-25) by Jeremy Wilson (Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1978)

The Odyssey of Homer, translated by T. E. Lawrence, pref. (pp. xi-xviii) by Jeremy Wilson, (New York, Limited Editions Club, 1981)

Maggs Bros [antiquarian booksellers], T. E. Lawrence with an Introduction  by Jeremy Wilson, (London, Maggs. Bros., 1985)

'T. E. Lawrence and the Printing of Seven Pillars of Wisdom', in Matrix V (Andoversford, Whittington Press, 1985, pp. 55-69)

'Legend of the desert king' [feature article for the centenary of T. E. Lawrence's birth] in The Independent (London, 16 August 1988).

'True grit and pashas' [review of recent books on Lawrence] in the Daily Telegraph (London, 3 December 1988)

Entry for T. E. Lawrence in The Blackwell Biographical Dictionary of British Political Life in the Twentieth Century (Oxford, Blackwell, 1990, pp. 258-9)

Foreword to T. E. Lawrence: Letters Vo. IX, Correspondence with Henry Williamson (Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 2000, pp. xiii-xv)

Foreword to Adrien Le Corbeau / T. E. Lawrence, Le Gigantesque / The Forest Giant [parallel French and English text] with an introduction by Jeremy Wilson  (Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 2004, pp. vii-xv). Online text.

'Seven Pillars - triumph and tragedy', Online text, T.E. Lawrence Studies, 2006

Preface to T. E. Lawrence, An Invitation to British Columbia (Vancouver, Heavenly Monkey, 2005)

'Lawrence re-imagined' in The Middle East in London (London Middle East Institute, SOAS, Vol. 2., No. 7, December 2005-January 2006, pp. 10-11)

'T. E. Lawrence, the life, the legend' [exhibition review] Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. 84, No. 337, Spring 2006, pp. 92-4

Review of Lawrence of Arabia, an Encyclopedia by Stephen E.TabachnickEnglish Literature in Transition' Vol. 49, No. 4, autumn 2006, pp. 441-4

Review of The Hedjaz Railway by James Nicholson, T.E. Lawrence Studies, January 2007

'Frank Helier Lawrence', T.E. Lawrence Studies, January 2007

'Lawrence, the Arabs and Damascus', Lawrence of Arabia and the Light Horse (Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 2007, pp. 22-9)

'Suleiman Mousa 1919-2008', Jordan Times, Amman, 14 July 2008.

T. E. Lawrence, 'Playground Football' (book review) Parenthesis 15 (Fine Press Book Association, Autumn 2008, pp. 56-8).

'Excursions in Sinai' [introductory compilation] in T.E. Lawrence, Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula, ed. by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson. (Fordingbridge. Castle Hill Press, 2008, pp. vii-xxxi)

Introduction to T.E. Lawrence, Towards 'An English Fourth', ed. by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson, (Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 2009 pp. vii-xii)
 

Lectures and papers given at Symposia, etc
(this list is incomplete)

National Portrait Gallery Symposium. National Portrait Gallery, London, 1989: The Legend of T. E. Lawrence

Royal Over-Seas League. London, 4 October 1989: Sense and Nonsense in the Biography of T. E. Lawrence

Imperial War Museum. London, 1990: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Fact or Fiction?

FNAC. Talks (in French) in FNAC bookshops in Paris, Orleans, and Strasbourg

Santa Clara University, California, 'T. E. Lawrence at the End of the Twentieth Century: A Scholarly Conference'.  May 2000: Lawrence Biography at the Crossroads: Evidence, Speculation, Prejudice, and Invention

Evangelische Akademie Bad Boll, Länderseminar: Jordanien April 2002: Geschichte - Politik - Biographie. Zusammenhänge und Hintergründe (in English)

Tank Museum, Bovington, 20 October 2005, 'T. E. Lawrence in Dorset'.

Imperial War Museum, London, 11 March 2006, 'Lawrence of Arabia or Smith in the Desert'

Lee University, Cleveland, Tennessee, Lawrence of Arabia, Archaeologist, Ethnographer and Explorer', 22 April 2006, 'T.E. Lawrence at Carchemish and after: one man in successive contexts'

Imperial War Museum, London, 12 May 2007, 'Lawrence at Sea'

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California, 6 October 2007, 'Victoria Ocampo, T.E. Lawrence's most extraordinary biographer'

Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 9 December 2007, 'T.E. Lawrence and the capture of Akaba'

British Forces Cyprus battlefield tour, Jordan, May 2008
Historical guide, with David Thorpe (Field Director-Site of the GARP project). Gave a number of talks on aspects of the Arab Revolt and Lawrence's role.

Contributions to television and radio programmes
(this list is incomplete)

Lawrence of England, BBC South TV, 1978. Two-part television documentary written and narrated by David Lomax, with contributions by Jeremy Wilson.

Lawrence After Arabia, BBC Television, 1986. Television Documentary produced by Julia Cave, with contributions by Jeremy Wilson.

Contributions to French, Italian, and Japanese television documentaries about T.E. Lawrence.

Interviews and contributions to programmes on the BBC World Service, BBC national and local radio, NPR (some available online) and French, German and Japanese radio stations.

 


 

 


With John Mack and Malcolm Brown, September 2004


December 2006


March 2007


Huntington Library, October 2007 (photo B. Pruett)


Myrtle Cottage, Hythe, October 2007


On the track-bed of the Hedjaz Railway, Wadi, Rutm, Jordan, May 2008

 


T.E. Lawrence Studies - www.telawrence.info - is edited by Jeremy Wilson assisted by the Society for T.E. Lawrence Studies. The web hosting is sponsored by Castle Hill Press.