Past Society Events

See below for reports and photographs of past Society events.

May 2017
Commemorating the 82nd anniversary
of Lawrence’s death

In a simple service held at Lawrence’s graveside, the Society marked both the 82nd anniversary of Lawrence’s death on 19 May 1935 and the centenary of the taking of Akaba in 1917

September 2016
The T. E. Lawrence Society’s 14th Symposium

See photographs from our 14th biennial Symposium, held at St John’s College, Oxford, where a record number of delegates joined us for a special programme of events commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of the Arab Revolt in 1916

May 2016
Commemorating the 81st anniversary
of Lawrence’s death

Around 20 people joined us for a simple service at Lawrence’s graveside, including the laying of flowers; while Society members played a leading role in the second Lawrence Week at Clouds Hill

March 2016
Following in the Footsteps of Lawrence: Society Trip to Jordan

An intrepid group of travellers from the T. E. Lawrence Society set off with expedition leader James Dyer
to follow part of Lawrence’s route through Jordan,
enjoying traditional Bedouin hospitality along the way

January 2016
The Man with the Gold: Exclusive
Script Reading of a New Lawrence Play

An audience of round 65 people joined us for a staged reading of Jan Woolf’s new play, The Man with the Gold, which will have its world premiere at the Society’s Symposium in September 2016

October 2015
T. E. Lawrence in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

Read newspaper coverage of the Society’s autumn
tour visiting sites connected with Aircraftman Shaw

May 2015
Commemorating the 80th anniversary
of Lawrence’s death

See our page of photographs from the
commemorations in Dorset and North Wales

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