Dreamers of the Day: TE Lawrence

How does popular culture see Lawrence of Arabia?

This month Angus, Chris and Jessica speak to cartoonist Ned Barnett about his work on T. E. Lawrence, including both his research travelogue, Dreamers of the Day, and his on-going three volume graphic biography of the famous polymath. Along the way we discuss Lawrence as a celebrity, the challenges of cartooning, the comparative heights of Lawrence and Peter O’Toole and the textile holdings of the National Army Museum.

References

Ned Barnett, Dreamers of the Day (2019)

Michael Korda, Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (2011)

Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2013)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962), dir. David Lean

National World War I Museum and Memorial (Kansas City, Missouri)

National Army Museum (London)

Imperial War Museums (London)

Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)

Holly Furneaux, Military Men of Feeling: Emotion, Touch and Masculinity in the Crimean War (2016)

Hergé, Tintin

Lucy Knisley, An Age of License (2014)

History of Science Museum (Oxford)

With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia (1919), dir. Lowell Thomas

Graham Dawson, Soldier Heroes: British Empire, Adventure and the Imagining of Masculinities (1994)

Louis Halewood, Adam Luptak and Hanna Smyth, War Time: First World War Perspectives on Temporality (2019)

E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)

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Professor of Modern British History at Leeds University. My research interests lie at the intersection of the histories of gender, particularly masculinity, medicine and warfare.

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A historian focusing on the First World War and popular representations of warfare. I received my PhD from the University of Sussex in 2013. My thesis examined relations between British and French soldiers during the First World War.

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Is a Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds University. My current research focuses on manpower and authority in Britain, starting with the First World War and running through until the end of the Second World War.