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New Books in Print!

Apocryphile have now reissued some more of Williams’s poetry ; the dramatic-form “A Myth of Shakespeare” and the cllection “Heroes and Kings“. You can find both at the links above.

Annual General Meeting 2013

The Annual General Meeting of the Charles Williams Society will be held on Saturday 4th May at 12.00 noon in the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Shoe Lane, OXFORD. Agenda 1. Apologies for Absence 2. Minutes of the previous AGM 3. Matters Arising 4. Reports from Officers of the Society (a)   Secretary (b)   Treasurer […]

Charles Williams in the New Yorker

Caleb Crain writes in the New Yorker about discovering the novels of Charles Williams: What We’re Reading: Charles Williams

Next Meeting: 4 May 2013.

The next meeting of the Society will be at the Centre for Mediaeval Studies, Shoe Lane, Oxford, on Saturday, May the 4th, 2013. It will begin with the Society’s annual general meeting at 12 noon. In the afternoon Professor Grevel Lindop will be speaking on Williams’s poetry. Guests are welcome as well as members.

Faber & Faber republishes Charles Williams

Faber and Faber are republishing Charles Williams’ novels as part of their ‘Faber Finds’ series.  You can see the books published so far at FaberFinds.com, or get them directly from Amazon: War in Heaven The Place of the Lion All Hallow’s Eve The Greater Trumps Many Dimensions

Meeting April 28, 2012

Our next meeting was held on April 28th, 2012, at the Oxford Cenre for Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, Shoe Lane, Oxford. The Society held its annual general meeting at 12 noon, and after a break for lunch reconvened at 2 p.m., when our speaker was be Professor Grevel Lindop, giving an account of his work […]

Theology in Action – A Dorothy Sayers Study Day

Our friends at the Dorothy L. Sayers Society are hosting an upcoming conference: Theology In Action.  Click here for more details.

The Future of the Society: April 2011 AGM

At the annual general meeting of the Society, held on April 9th 2011, important decisions were taken on the future of the Society/The Chairman said that there were two great problems facing the Society. One was the composition of the Council. All members had been on it for ten years or more, and were anxious […]

Remembering Geoffrey Tinling

We have learned recently of the death of one of our oldest members, Geoffrey Tinling. Geoffrey was devoted to the society and will be remembered for his generous and enthusiastic contributions to our gatherings. Together with his wife, Ruth, he was, for many years, responsible for the distribution of the Newsletter and Quarterly. In remembering […]

Sayers/Williams Papers Now Available

Copies of the papers delivered at the joint meeting of the Charles Williams Society and the Dorothy L Sayers Society at the Michaelhouse Centre in Cambridge last year are now available. Contents:  Brian Horne: The Girl and the City: Charles Williams and Dante, Suzanne Bray: Guilt and Glory: The Message of Charles Williams’ and Dorothy […]