20 September 2021
Amazing relic from Shandy Hall tree
“Gathered from an aged tree in the garden at Shandy Hall . . . 26 July 1854”. Amazing relic from the sweet chestnut killed by lightning in 1911, but still here in Shandy Hall gardens. A leaf pressed by Rev. William Nichols in a copy of Sterne’s works of 1783. Thanks to Edward Bayntun-Coward for […]
6 August 2021
‘Zounds!’: Tristram Shandy’s rude bits
Key-holes: ‘the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.’ “Shandy Hall, and what we found there.” Article by Andrew Green after a visit to see Katrin Moye’s exhibition at Shandy Hall.
8 June 2021
Alas Poor Yorick! The Reburial of Sterne’s skull
On This Day 8th June in 1969, the skull and femur of Laurence Sterne were reinterred at Coxwold, outside the church where he once preached. The bones were rescued from their original grave in London as the site was to be built over. Sterne had become his alter ego. Alas Poor Yorick!
31 March 2021
A Grand Folio – Tom Phillips exhibition opens
A Grand Folio – Tom Phillips exhibition at Shandy Hall – Our first exhibition after the lockdown periods displayed Tom Phillips artworks for the new Folio Society edition of Tristram Shandy, and many other of his works on literary classics. See more on our past Exhibitions pages.
29 September 2020
Death of ‘tristram shandy’, pauper 19 September 1786
19 Sept 1786 On this day died “tristram shandy”, a tiny baby taken into St Martin’s Workhouse, London on 11 Sept 1786 St Martin’s Workhouse registers St. Martin’s Pauper Biographies Project
3 January 2016
Arthur Cash 1922-2016
Arthur H. Cash, who wrote a definitive two-volume biography of the English novelist Laurence Sterne and became a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007 for his biography of the 18th-century English radical John Wilkes, died 29th December 2016 in Watch Hill, R.I. He was 94. The death was confirmed by his wife, the novelist Mary Gordon. […]
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 […]
1 April 2015
Julia Monkman 1931-2015
Julia Monkman was in at the start of the Laurence Sterne Trust. With her husband she came to visit Shandy Hall. That visit stirred their shared vision for the house. It was then not only unkempt but perilous, its ‘shandy’ chimney ready to topple at the next gale. Together they launched the campaign that saw […]
1 August 2014
Jan Starink 12 June 1927-18 June 2014
The Laurence Sterne Trust records with great regret the death of Jan Starink who, with his wife Gertrude, translated The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman into Dutch. This is an edited version of the address given by W.G. Day at the funeral. In the summer of 1977 I got an anxious phone call from Kenneth […]
