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The Programme for the Tavistock Gathering (5 – 7 October) is now complete – see below. There will be the usual talks, an outing and frequent meals – all great opportunities for socialising, learning more about Sabine Baring-Gould, and exploring. The book under examination is the highly entertaining Mrs Curgenven of Curgenven. There are print-on-demand

New regulations coming into force in May 2018 place extra demands on organisations of all sizes that hold and use members’ personal data, such as addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mails. We have devised a new Privacy Statement and  a Data Protection Policy that, we believe, meets the requirements of the regulations. A form has been

The London bookseller, Jarndyce Books, were recently selling at the 51st California Antiquarian Book Fair in Pasadena, 9 – 11 February. One of the items listed was a manuscript copy of ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’, perhaps one of those SB-G dashed off before breakfast for his American dealer? Jarndyce’s description is as follows: BARING-GOULD, Sabine. Signed Manuscript

    Sabine Baring-Gould’s collection of short stories, Furze Bloom, Tales of the Western Moors (Methuen, 1899) has been one of the hardest of his books to find. It was only produced in a cheap edition and few copies have survived in good condition. I recently obtained a copy and, because it was necessary to

The Annual Meeting and AGM of the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society will be held in Tavistock on the weekend of 5-7 October 2018. The programme is under construction and a suitable venue is being sought. We will (probably) be looking at two of the books written by Baring-Gould which are set in the Tamar Valley