Category: News
22 February 2023
Shandy Hall to open in April 2023
April 2023 will be the 50th year of Shandy Hall opening as a public museum, and we will be bringing our opening date forward to April 1st this season, a month earlier than usual.
22 February 2023
Estonian Tristram Shandy
There is now an Estonian translation of Tristram Shandy, by Kersti Unt, which has been kindly sent for our collection. More here (in Estonian)
30 November 2022
Tom Phillips 24th May 1937 – 28th November 2022
TOM PHILLIPS 24th May 1937 – 28th November 2022 Deeply missed friend and patron of The Laurence Sterne Trust. Obituary, The Guardian 29 November 2022
5 July 2022
Locke Unlocked – A Look at John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
This display at Shandy Hall can be viewed free by appointment until 30 September. This display pays tribute to philosopher John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) by offering a new way to explore a revered text. Six central ideas in the Essay are elucidated using (mostly) paired objects. The six vignettes show three […]
8 February 2022
Tristram Shandy – Frisian translation
A new book for our translation collection came through the post this morning: Tristram Shandy translated into Frisian by Geart fan der Mear. Thanks to Jitske Kingma of Uitgeverij Elikser (Publishers) for sending.
24 November 2021
Cain’s Jawbone goes viral!
10,000 more copies of literary mystery Cain’s Jawbone are being reprinted after the book sold out when a clip went viral on TikTok. The book, published originally in 1934, was republished in 2019 by the Laurence Sterne Trust and Unbound. It was such a success, even after the solution was found and the prize won […]
24 September 2021
Laurence Sterne’s Chair returns to Shandy Hall
When Robert Athol, the Archivist at Jesus College Cambridge, was looking in the storerooms for a suitable seat for his office, he pulled out a likely-looking 18th century chair. On closer examination, he found a brass plaque on the back, inscribed ‘Hic sedebat Laurentius Sterne’ (‘Here used to sit Laurence Sterne’). Later he uncovered the […]
9 June 2015
Thomas Stothard, R.A. (1755-1834)
Thomas Stothard, R.A. (1755-1834) was the third English artist, after William Hogarth and Michael Angelo Rooker, to produce illustrations to a published edition of Tristram Shandy. In 1781 Harrison & Co of Paternoster Row printed eight engravings after his designs in volume V of their The Novelist’s Magazine. The originals had been engraved by Charles Grignion, James […]
