{"id":664,"date":"2016-04-19T11:02:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T11:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/waughandwords\/?p=664"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:22:17","slug":"evening-waugh-waugh-in-abyssinia-23-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/waughandwords\/2016\/04\/19\/evening-waugh-waugh-in-abyssinia-23-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Waugh: Waugh in Abyssinia, 23 May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterharrington.co.uk\/rare-books\/africa-travel-exploration\/waugh-in-abyssinia-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.peterharrington.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/67924.jpg\" alt=\"First edition of Waugh in Abyssinia\" width=\"256\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">www.peterharrington.co.uk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Join us at Fingerprints Delicaf\u00e9 to discuss <em>Waugh in Abyssinia<\/em>, a controversial account of Mussolini&#8217;s 1930s Ethiopian campaign which reflects a recent Catholic convert&#8217;s enthusiasm for all things Italian. Waugh reported on the conflict from Abyssinia for the\u00a0<em>Daily Mail<\/em>, the only British paper to take Mussolini&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When: Monday 23 May, 7pm-9pm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Where:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fingerprints-delicafe.co.uk\/gareth-s-legacy\/\">Fingerprints caf\u00e9<\/a>, Queens Road, Clarendon Park<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Contact: waughbookgroupleicester@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New members always welcome. Free, but\u00a0please support Fingerprints by buying a hot drink or snack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Join us at Fingerprints Delicaf\u00e9 to discuss Waugh in Abyssinia, a controversial account of Mussolini&#8217;s 1930s Ethiopian campaign which reflects a recent Catholic convert&#8217;s enthusiasm for all things Italian. Waugh reported on the conflict from Abyssinia for the\u00a0Daily Mail, the only British paper to take Mussolini&#8217;s side. &nbsp; When: Monday 23 May, 7pm-9pm &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[18,17,16],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-waugh-book-group","tag-fascism","tag-travel-writing","tag-waugh-book-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/waughandwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/waughandwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/waughandwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/waughandwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/waughandwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/waughandwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/waughandwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/waughandwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/waughandwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/waughandwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}