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  • Joachim in the Heron-Allen Collection at the Royal College of Music, London Powerpoint presentation by Sinni Francesco Ricci click here to listen

  • (Snuggly Books, 2019) Presented here for the first time in a single volume, is the entire corpus of short fiction by Edward Heron-Allen, one of England’s most intriguing, and unnecessarily obscure, authors. From “The Suicide of Sylvester Gray,” the novella which was an inspiration for The Portrait of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, a friend…

  • Edited and with an introduction by Daniel Corrick (Snuggly Books, 2021) Contains The Princess Daphne, Bella-Demonia, and The Vengeance of Maurice Denalquez

  • This meeting was held on Wednesday, 23rd April 2025. Neil Chalmers Lecture Theatre The Natural History Museum London If you would like further information about the In Memorium meeting, or have any questions, please contact Dave Horne by email (d.j.horne@qmul.ac.uk). To read the full notice, please click here

  • After decades of speculation, new research has finally revealed the true origins of Edward Heron-Allen’s infamous “cursed” purple sapphire, currently housed in the Natural History Museum’s vault. The sapphire, which Heron-Allen claimed brought misfortune to its owners, has been the subject of numerous investigations. Recent archival work has uncovered the full provenance chain, tracing the…

  • (Snuggly Books, 2019) Hardback 74pp. Limited to 110 copies.

  • March The Annual Heron-Allen Lecture will be held on Friday 11th March at 5:45pm in the Simpkins Lee Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. The 2022 Heron-Allen Lecture will be delivered by Professor Amy Dickman, who is currently a Professor of Wildlife Conservation with WildCRU at the University of Oxford. Her talk is entitled ‘Warriors, Wildlife…

  • March The Annual Heron-Allen Lecture which is usually held in March at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, was cancelled due to the pandemic. It is hoped that next year’s lecture will take place in March 2022. May Following their publication of the Complete Short Stories of Edward Heron-Allen, Snuggly Press have this spring published Three Ghost written Novels…

  • January The newly formed Tallahassee Sette of Odd Volumes published as their Opusculum no. III Timothy J. McCann and John P. Mahoney’s “A Brief Biography of Author and Polymath, Edward Heron-Allen, 1861-1943” (2020). March The Annual Heron-Allen Lecture will be held on Friday 13th March at 5:45pm in the Simpkins Lee Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall,…

  • March The Annual Heron-Allen Lecture will be held on Friday 8th March at 5:45pm in the Simpkins Lee Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. The Lecture will be delivered by Professor David Western, senior conservationist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and chairman of the African Conservation Centre. His talk is entitled ‘The changing nature of conservation…