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Jeremy Wilson
Born 1944, British, married with three children (now adult) lives
in Hampshire, England
Contemporary
historian, editor and writer
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
Freelance
senior business copywriter and
editor, working mainly on website content for B2B, financial and engineering companies. Recent clients include British Telecom, Nielsen NetRatings,
and OgilvyInteractive (American Express and Royal Mail
accounts)
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
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Books
and works edited relating to
T. E. Lawrence
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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)
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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)
In preparation:
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: Letters from Carchemish, ed. by Jeremy Wilson and Peter
Hibbert (Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press)
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)
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Introductions,
and articles in periodicals and newspapers
This list is incomplete
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'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)
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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.Tabachnick, English 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. |
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Lectures
and papers given at Symposia, etc
(this
list is incomplete)
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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
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Contributions
to television and radio programmes
(this list is incomplete)
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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