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The Journal is published on 22nd July each year – the anniversary of Falkner’s death. It usually contains four or more articles, written by both members and non-members. Examples of Falkner's own poetry and letters are alo included on occasions. The Society welcomes contributions, which should be sent to the Editor: Greenmantle, Main Street, Kings Newton, Melbourne, Derbyshire, DE73 8BX or by attachment to the email on the Home Page of this website. Those articles in BLUE can be read by clicking the title or author.

Number 1 : July 2000

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Raymond Moody                             

Peter Davey                                     

Christopher Hawtree

Peter Davey

Christopher Hawtree   

Christopher Hawtree

 

Number 2 : July 2001

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Andrew Stibbs                                  

Edward Wilson                                  

Stephen Derry                                  

Peter Davey                                      

 

Number 3 : July 2002

 

George D. Woodman                     

Raymond Moody                            

William Peter Mead                       

 

Edward Wilson              

Dale J. Nelson                                

 

Number 4 : July 2003

 

Kenneth Warren                             

Peter Davey                                    

Dale Nelson                                    

Christine R. Simpson                      

(Edward Wilson ed.)                        

 

Number 5 : July 2004

 

John Coulter                                     

Kenneth Warren                              

Peter Davey                                      

Arnold Hunt                                      

John Meade Falkner                        

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Number 6 : July 2005

 

John Meade Falkner                          

Christopher Hawtree                         

Kenneth Hillier                                    

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Number 7 : July 2006

 

Rev. W. Miles Barnes                          

John Meade Falkner                           

Royd Whitlock                                     

Kenneth Hillier                                    

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John Meade Falkner                          

 

Number 8 : July 2007

 

Richard H. Taylor                                   

George Robson                                      

Royd Whitlock                                        

Page and Allan Life                                

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Number 9 : July 2008

 

George Robson and

Kenneth Hillier                                         

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Michael Daniell

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Christopher Hawtree                               

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Number 10 : July 2009

 

Christopher Hawtree                         

George Robson                                  

Royd Whitlock                                    

Kenneth Warren                                 

John Meade Falkner                          

 

Number 11 : July 2010

 

George Robson                                  

Michael Daniell                                    

Christoper Hawtree                            

John Meade Falkner                          

John Meade Falkner                          

Royd Whitlock                                     

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Number 12 : July 2011

 

John Meade Falkner                           

George Robson                                   

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Number 13 : July 2012

 

Pamela Gerrish Nunn                         

Robin Davies                                       

George Robson                                  

Ray Ion                                                 

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Number 14 : July 2013

 

George Woodman                              

George Robson                                  

John Meade Falkner                           

John Meade Falkner                           

Kenneth Hillier                                     

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Number 15 : July 2014

 

Kenneth Warren                                  

Christopher Hawtree                          

Ray Ion and Kenneth Hillier                

Ray Ion and George Robson              

John Meade Falkner                           

 

Number 16 : July 2015

 

Jonathan Brough                           

Ray Ion                                            

Kenneth Hillier                                

David Conner                                  

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John Meade Falkner                      

 

Number 17 : July 2016

 

Peter Davidson                               

Ray Ion                                            

Kenneth Warren                                           

Philip Weller                                     

Richard Davenport-Hines               

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Number 18: July 2017

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Dennis Hamley

Robin Davies

Christopher Hawtree

Philip Weller

John Meade Falkner

John Meade Falkner

John Meade Falkner

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Number 19: July 2018

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Michael Daniell

George Robson

Sir William Haley

Christopher Hawtree

George Robson

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Number 20: July 2019

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John Coulter & Godfrey Smith

Michael Daniell

Robin Davies

Philip Weller

George Woodman

Christopher Hawtree

John Meade Falkner

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Number 21: July 2020

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Philip Titcombe

John R. Gretton

George Robson

Philip Weller

John R. Gretton

Supplement

Ray Ion

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Number 22: July 2021

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Raymond Moody 

John R. Gretton

George Robson

Mark Valentine

Kenneth Hillier

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Number 23: July 2022

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Hamish Guthrie

John R. Gretton

Robin Davies

John Gretton

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Some editions of The Nebuly Coat

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Number 24: July 2023

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John R. Gretton

Kenneth Hillier

A G Gaydon

Hamish Guthrie

Christopher Hawtree

John Meade Falkner

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Number 25: July 2024​

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Manon Boukhroufa

John Saumarez Smith

John Coulter

Melanie Davy 

Nicholas Daly 

Robin Davies

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Then and Now: Falkner’s Burford

John Meade Falkner’s ‘Wessex’ and The Lost Stradivarius

John Meade Falkner and Sir Nicholas O’Conor

"Accident or Foul Play?" The Death of Mr Sharnall in The Nebuly Coat

"Imperious Tyranny and Infinite Gusto" John Meade Falkner the Sportsman

"A Second Rate War" A John Meade Falkner Discovery

 

 

 

Pernicious nonsence? Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner

Falkner in Camera: A Photograph from Taunt

Falkner’s use of Desperate Remedies and A Laodicean in The Nebuly Coat

John Meade Falkner’s The Nebuly Coat: an undiscovered Wessex

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John Meade Falkner: Novelist and Arms Dealer

A Poem by John Meade Falkner: Burford, Oxon. (1)

Biographical Notes on the Mead, Mobbs and Gaskell Ancestors of John Meade

Falkner

Falkner All’ Ombra del Vesuvio

Writers in the M. R. James Tradition

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Falkner in Durham [1889-1932]: a perspective on a small cathedral city

Shadow Over Corfe: a consideration of J. Meade Falkner’s poem Corfe Castle

Antiquarian Allusions and Inventions in Charalampia

John Meade Falkner, his works and influence on Dorothy L. Sayers

Random Reflections: a correspondence

 

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John Meade Falkner as a Book Collector

A Berkshire Bicycling Holiday

Shooting the Past

Chronology and The Nebuly Coat

Did Lord Blandamer murder Sharnall?

 

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My dear Mr. Stone

Shilling Lives

A Derbyshire or Northumberland Pedagogue?

“Rich and Hard by Name”: A 1483 Mystery

 

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Fleet Old Church and its Brasses

A Letter to the Revd. W. Miles Barnes

Carisbrooke Castle in Moonfleet

John Meade Falkner and Lord Rendel - a contretemps

"Rich and Hard by Name" Part II

Returning to London (poem)

 

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John Meade Falkner and Thomas Hardy

John Meade Falkner M.P. ?

The Religious Books in Moonfleet

John Meade Falkner and source material (1)

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The Cobra Trail

Elswick "an augean stable"

Oxfordshire, Berks but not Bucks: John Meade Falkner's correspondence

with his publisher

"Crazy Vessel": Falkner's Bath Inheritance

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John Meade Falkner's Impressions of Death

Rural Rides to Catcleugh

Moonfleet : Maritime Matters

Concentric Worlds: The Divinity House in the life of John Meade Falkner

Last Ballade of Burford (poem)

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A Speculation

A very small result'? John Meade Falkner's History of Oxfordshire

A Transplanted Hidalgo

Villa Adriana (poem)

'Twixt Deal and Dover (poem)

Index to Volumes 1 – 10

 

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Life in West Walks, Dorchester

‘Homes of the Happiest’: Halcyon Days at Lorbottle Hall

No. 42 South Street, Durham

John Meade Falkner’s Colleagues (1) Sir Philip Watts

The Great Storm of November 1824

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Anne Louise Falkner

Bath in History and Social Tradition by An Appreciative Visitor

‘Explosion on the Tyne’

Smugglers’ Bay: You lose some….you win some

Eighty Years On: 22nd July 1932

 

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Charalampia: a quasi-Byzantine romance?

Subterranean

Dragonade - Easter 1889

Villa Adriana (poem)

A Brazilian Adventure

 

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Belief, Work and War: Some of the puzzles in the life of John Meade Falkner

The Freewheelin’ Falkner: On re-reading The Nebuly Coat

Falkner’s Farm, Wiltshire

The In-Laws

Picadilly (poem)

 

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Prosper the Bonaventure...Storm Coming Now

100 Years Ago (1)

Pen Portraits

A Christmas Day Sermon 2013

A Leaf from a West Country Book of Hours c.1425

(Untitled poem)

 

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John Meade Falkner: Novelist and Antiquary

100 Years Ago (2)

The Northumberland recreations of the masters of Elswick                      

Wanderings around Naples Part I - Piedigrotta or The Game is Afoot

John Meade Falkner and Oxford

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A Review of Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner

ZED ZED – The life and times of Sir Basil Zaharoff (1849-1936)

In Correct Society: of Falkner and Women

Wanderings around Naples Part 2 – An Evening in Napoli

Three Little Maids (poem)

The New Japan (poem)

Ballade of the Philistine: to L.H.G.N. and E.L.V.N (poem)

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Naming The Oxford Three

The Palace of a Modern Magician

Meade Falkner: Purpose and Achievement

Falkner in West Egg: A Fourth Novel Revealed

Arnold Culley 1867-1942

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John Meade Falkner as a Book Collector: A Footnote

John Meade Falkner at Oxford

1898

Wanderings around Naples Part 3 - Neapolitan Funerary Matters

A Translation by Falkner

A Hunk of Protein - John Meade Falkner by Richard Davenport-Hines

A Fragment (poem)

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John Meade Falkner's Chant Book

Captain J. M. Falkner of the 1st Northumberland Artillery

"A dream - The first thing that has made my heart pound"

Wanderings around Naples Part 4 - The Villa de Angelis at Posilipo

John Meade Falkner and Murray's Buckinghamshire

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Long Legs and Silly Points - John Meade Falkner and Cricket

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John Meade Falkner and Burford

The Decorations and Medals of John Meade Falkner

Moonfleet's Hidden Mysteries revealed

Mr Meade Falkner's Last Tales

Moonfleet in the Kingfisher Library 1946

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The Theme of Innocence and Experience in Moonfleet and Jim Davis

Music in the life of John Meade Falkner

John Meade Falkner 1858-1932

J.M. Falkner: The Secondary Sources. An Annotated Checklist

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The Hertford College Stamps with further notes on the College

Arthur 'Cubby' Medd

Kings, Nobles, Lords, Jews and the Vicars of Moonfleet in JMF's time

A Commentary on John Meade Falkner's Collected Poems

Falkner's Offspring!

Three Poems (in his own hand)

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A Comparative Study: Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner

Mystery at the Minster

​The Nebuly Coat

Henry Barnes - The architect who designed JMF's boyhood home

Somewhere there's Music: John Meade Falkner's The Lost Stradivarius

Rome - John Meade Falkner in the Eternal City

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