An Owen Barfield Timeline: At the Walhatch (1986-1998)
Youth Oxford
Years		 London
Years		 Retirement/
Lecturing
in America

Year Owen Barfield's Life World/Cultural Events 
1986

[88]
—Leaves Orchard View, Kent to live in The Walhatch, Forest Row, East Sussex
—Meaning, Revelation, and Tradition in Language and Religion, The Self in Vogue (review of Words and Values) (essays and reviews)
—The Silver Trumpet (book)

Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 74 seconds after liftoff. US (supported by Britain) bombs Libya. Olof Palme, leader of the Social Democratic Party in Sweden, is assassinated. A nuclear accident at a power plant in Chernobyl releases radioactive polition. Georgia O'Keefe dies. Jorge Luis Borges dies. Henry Moore dies. 


Palme


Borges
1987

[89]
—Anthroposophy and the Future, Where Sensitivity Was Once Enough (essays)

Gorbachev introduces the term "glasnost." Syrian troops occupy the Muslim sector in parts of Lebanon. Andy Warhol dies. Margaret Thatcher reelected as British Prime Minister. John Huston dies. James Baldwin dies. Fred Astaire dies.


Gorbachov


Huston


Baldwin
 
1988

[90]
—The Child and the Giant (fiction)
—Preface. The Taste of the Pineapple, A Visit to Beatrice, Review of Words and The Word (essays and reviews)

 Nicaraguan contras and the Sandinista government reach a cease-fire agreement. End of Iran-Iraq war. Gorbachev introduces "perestroika."  Iraq attacks curdish villages. The Geneva Accords on the war in Afghanistan are signed by Pakistan and Afghanistan. George Bush elected President of the United States. Pan Am plane blown up in mid-air over Scotland. US warship shoots down Iranian airliner, killing 286. Armenia rocked by earthquake. Alan Paton dies. Richard Feynman dies.


Bush

 
 
1989 [91]
—"The Light of the World" in The Golden Blade		 The 14th Dalai Lama (1935- ) receives the Nobel Peace Prize. A US delegation demands that Iraq privatize its oil industry, and Iraq refuses. Democracy protest in Tianamen Square in Beijiing crushed. Laurence Olivier dies. Salvador Dali dies. Samuel Beckett dies.


the Dalai Lama


Beckett


Olivier  
 
1990

[92]
—Sonnet: How shall I work that she may not forget (poetry)

 Nelson Mandela is freed after 27 years in prison. East and West Germany unite. Hubble Space Telescope is launched. Bush and Gorbachev agree to cut nuclear arms and chemical weapons. Yeltsin is elected president of Russia. Ukraine declares its sovereignty. Iraq invades Kuwait. British prime minister Margaret Thatcher resigns and is succeeded by John Major. Fighting begins between the Rwandan Patriotic Front and the Rwandan government. Chile returns to democracy after 17 years under a dictator, and Augusto Pinochet is replaced. Hubble telescope launched. Walker Percy dies. Roald Dahl dies. B. F. Skinner dies.


Major


Pinochet


Skinner
 
1991 [93]

Six republics of Yugoslavia, including Slovenia and Croatia declare themself independent. Allied forces launch a six week air attack on Iraq. Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated while campaigning for an election in India. Boris Yeltsin gains control of the USSR government and USSR breaks down. Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma wins Nobel Peace Prize. Edwin Land dies. David Lean dies. Isaac Bashevis Singer dies. Dr. Seuss dies. Frank Capra dies. Jeffrey Dahmer arrest.


Aung San Suu Kyi 


Singer


Capra
 
1992

[94]
 —Filming for Owen Barfield: Man and Meaning completed at the Walhatch
—All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis

 World population is 5.2 billion. Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States. NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) agreed to. Riots in Los Angeles after Rodney King verdict. Serbian death camps discovered. Derek Walcott wins Nobel Prize for Literature. John Cage dies. Anthony Perkins dies. Lawrence Welk dies. Marelne Dietrich dies.


Clinton


Walcott

 
1993

[95]
—A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction (book)
— Afterword to A Barfield Sampler (essay)
—Interview with Elmar Schenkel

 Toni Morrrison wins Nobel Prize for Literature. White rule in South Africa ends. Yeltsin defeats rebellion of hard-liners in Russia. Mars Observer malfunctions. World Trade Center hit by bomb. Federico Fellini dies. Frank Zappa dies. Anthony Burgess dies. Wiliam Golding dies. 

Morrison

Yeltsin

Golding
1994 [96] Hundreds of thousands slaughtered in Rwanda. United States seizes Hait. Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa. O. J. Simpson accused of murder.  Former President Nixon dies. Kenzaburo Oe wins Nobel Prize for Literature. Karl Popper dies. Elias Canetti dies. Linus Pauling dies.

Nixon

Mandela

Oe
1995

[97]
—An Interview with Owen Barfield: Poetic Diction Between Conception and Publication (interview)

 Federal Building in Oklahoma City bombed. Kobe, Japan rocked by earthquake. Aum Shinrikyo realeases nerve gas in Tokyo subway. Israeli Prime Minister Rabin assassinated. Unabomber manifesto published. Peace in Bosnia; Seamus Heaney wins Nobel Prize for Literature. 


Rabin


Heaney

  
 
1996 [98] Bill Clinton reelected President. Gene Kelly dies. François Mitterand dies. Wislawa Szymborska wins Nobel Prize for Literature. TWA Flight 800 crash kills 228.

Mitterand

Kelly

Szymborska
1997

[99]
—Owen Barfield dies 12/14

 Hong Kong returns to China. Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister of England. Fashion designer Gianni Versace is murdered. Mother Teresa dies. Princess Diana dies. Dario Fo wins Nobel Prize for Literature.


Blair


Fo


Mother Teresa
 
1998 Owen Barfield Centenary held at Columbia University and Drew University, 12/4-12/5 President Clinton is impeached. Bomb kills 28 in Omagh, Northern Ireland. Frank Sinatra dies. Pol Pot dies. José Saramago wins Nobel Prize for Literature.

Sinatra

Saramago

Pot
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