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''The mountains from their heights reveal to us two truths. They suddenly make us feel our insignificance, and at the same time they free the immortal Mind, and let it feel its greatness, and they release it from the earth.'' - The Path to Rome

Tuesday, 30 September 2025

Hilaire Belloc’s Cromwell and Charles I back in print...

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Two of Hilaire Belloc’s histories, 'Cromwell' and 'Charles I', are back in print via Mysterium Press in premium re-typeset h...
Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Festival of Chichester - Hilaire Belloc talk on the 16th of July at 7.30 PM (Chichester Centre Arts Centre)...

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Sussex writer and poet, Hilaire Belloc, lived life to the full: he wrote on many subjects, travelled extensively, was a Member of Parliament...
Wednesday, 29 January 2025

Essays of a Catholic, Hills and the Sea, and The First and Last...

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  "Hilaire Belloc, one of the greatest masters of the essay form in English, and one whose writing has the capacity to teach a prosaic ...
Tuesday, 10 December 2024

Chesterton and Belloc - a Fastidious Friendship....

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The Department of Catholic Studies, the G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture and the Celtic Theatre Company proudly present G.K....
Wednesday, 2 October 2024

The Path to Rome republished...

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  This edition is entirely re-typeset, includes Belloc's 77 original illustrations, and a new foreword by Belloc biographer Joseph Pear...
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Wednesday, 25 September 2024

The Cruise of the Nona - new edition...

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  The latest edition can be purchased here : In The Cruise of the ‘Nona,’ Hilaire Belloc sets off “to sail the English seas again, and to pu...
Monday, 8 April 2024

Classic children’s poems have been given a trigger warning by a publisher because they may be “harmful” to modern readers, The Telegraph can reveal...

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Classic children’s poems have been given a trigger warning by a publisher because they may be “harmful” to modern readers, The Telegraph can...
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Hilaire Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 - 16 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters and political activist. He is most notable for his Catholic faith, which had a strong impact on most of his works and his writing collaboration with G. K. Chesterton. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds, but also widely regarded as a humane and sympathetic man. His most lasting legacy is probably his verse, which encompasses cautionary tales and religious poetry. Among his best-remembered poems are Jim, who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a lion and Matilda, who told lies and was burnt to death. Recent biographies of Belloc have been written by A. N. Wilson and Joseph Pearce.
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