haggsfarmsocietyApr 121 minElizabeth ChambersWe were recently very pleased to be sent this photograph by Richard Billings who has been researching his family tree. He believed the...
haggsfarmsocietyApr 17, 20212 minWhatever happened to ...?Mary a.k.a Molly, born 15th January 1896 was the youngest of the three Chambers daughters and is the one child about whom little is known...
haggsfarmsocietyJan 25, 20213 minLandscape and Literature, Landscape and MusicA very successful Haggs Farm Preservation Society AGM on zoom was followed by an absorbing talk from Alan Wilson and Malcolm Gray about...
haggsfarmsocietyNov 14, 20202 minWhatever happened to ...?In addition to the relatives of the Chambers family who emigrated to Canada, one branch also found their way to New Zealand. This is the...
haggsfarmsocietySep 29, 20203 minWhatever happened to...?Hubert & Bernard... the 'middle' Chambers brothers Hubert was the fifth surviving child born to Edmund and Sarah. Another son, John...
haggsfarmsocietyAug 1, 20207 minLawrence and the Garnetts“It was impossible to know Lawrence without loving him.” Forty years ago I bought a bundle of papers for £1 at a Saturday sale in the...
haggsfarmsocietyMay 3, 20205 minRobert Frost and Edward Thomas: Inspirational FriendsRobert Frost and Edward Thomas seem, on the surface, to be the most unlikely of poets to become inspirational friends...
haggsfarmsocietyMar 29, 20204 minMEMORIES OF MAY HOLBROOK FROM VANCOUVER ISLANDThe following article appeared in the Saskatoon Western Producer, a well known farm newspaper in Western Canada around 1956 following the...
haggsfarmsocietyMar 15, 20202 minAlan Wilson, chair of the DH Lawrence societyA warm welcome to the new chairman of the DH Lawrence society, Alan Wilson, who will be captain of the ship from March 2020. Alan, having...
haggsfarmsocietyMar 1, 20205 minThe English Library, TenerifeI thought I would share with members a fascinating find made on a recent holiday to Tenerife, as it was Lawrence who indirectly led me there
haggsfarmsocietyFeb 7, 20204 minWalt Whitman - Inspired by a Cityby Steve Newman Walt Whitman the American poet, of part Welsh decent, was as much the literary grandfather of D. H. Lawrence as any other...
haggsfarmsocietyJan 12, 20202 minWhatever happened to...?Muriel May Chambers b. 20/10/1883 was the second child of Edmund & Sarah. The eldest of the three daughters, she was the one who had the...
haggsfarmsocietyDec 15, 20195 minDelius and Fenby: A Creative FriendshipThe composer Frederick Delius was sixty-six when the twenty-two-year old Eric Fenby wrote to him, and although a very different relationship
haggsfarmsocietyDec 10, 20193 minUp Close and Personal with DHLThat’s when I was finally in the loop. I realised I was sitting in front of D.H.L.’s HANDWRITING. That stunned me into silence.
haggsfarmsocietyNov 16, 20193 minJessie and Bert: their lives and loves Jessie and Bert: how their lives and loves nurtured the genius of DH Lawrence.
haggsfarmsocietyNov 3, 20193 minEdward Elgar & Helen Weaver: A Love Affair Just three years before D. H. Lawrence was born the twenty-five-year old Edward Elgar fell in love with Helen Weaver.
haggsfarmsocietyOct 20, 20192 minWhatever Happened to…? What happened to the Chambers family after Haggs Farm?
haggsfarmsocietyOct 1, 20191 minGreat News - update to our July Blog!The judge's annotated copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence from the landmark obscenity trial of 1960 has been acquired by the...
haggsfarmsocietySep 29, 20194 minA Revelation by Steve NewmanMy discovery of Hemingway and Lawrence came about as a result of a new English teacher: a fresh-faced young Welshman called Mr Jones
haggsfarmsocietySep 22, 20195 minLawrence Comes Closer to HomeOn a bright August day a small group of Haggs Farm/ DH Lawrence society members visited the DH Lawrence bust by Diana Thomson which has...