Word from the Cloisters

22 May 2025, The Tablet

How many of the 35 past contributors and editors of The Tablet pictured on the front cover of this week’s 185th birthday issue, can you manage to identify? A prize is on offer too, see below

There’s a signed copy of our literary editor Maggie Fergusson’s biography of George Mackay Brown (bottom row, second from the left – so we didn’t forget to include him) going for the reader who makes us blush the deepest.

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