The journal of the Housman Society dropped on my doormat yesterday with a kind note from Elizabeth Oakley. I met her when she was in Street   more »

Two researchers have contacted the Street Society recently expressing an interest in Clemence Housman, sister of the famous poet AE Housman, and of his more prolific but less celebrated brother Laurence.   more »

After local interest in Laurence Housman and his sister Clemence was aroused by the visit to Street of the Housman Society, a Laurence Housman web site has been set up.

You can visit it at http://www.streetsociety.org/housman   more »

It's just the wrong time for the Pilton Festival, and I hear on the radio that some people are leaving the festival site already, having no shelter left.

But the good weather lasted just long enough for the Housman Society visit to end in blazing sunshine.

It all went off virtually as planned. Richard Clark gave a welcome, and showed us the graves of   more »

With the kind co-operation of the library staff, I spent five hours today, while the library was closed, researching Laurence Housman.   more »

Laurence Housman wrote 80 books, but he is chiefly remembered for a few lines.   more »

I've just finished reading Laurence Housman's autobiography 'The Unexpected Years'.    more »

Laurence Housman's gravestone is, like all the stones in the Quaker graveyard, simple.   more »

The quiet graveyard is partly shielded from the road by the Friends' Meeting House. Laurence Housman's stone is the right hand of the row nearest the camera.