Bookclub

Historical Context Brideshead Revisited was published in May 1945 at the moment World War II in Europe was ending. Waugh’s nostalgic portra...

Historical   background Huxley   drew on the contemporary scientific theory and debates in the 1930s. When he wrote Brave New World  new und...

Historical background World War I broke out after the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand ignited an already tense territorial feu...

  Historical background World War I (1914-18) was the first conflict in which more of the fighting was done with large machines (guns, tanks...

  Historical background Massive destruction and a a huge number of victims were left behind by World War I. The Bloomsbury Group (among whom...

    (Dust jacket by Francisco Cugat) Historical Context The Roaring Twenties was the nickname of the 1920s economic boom in the United State...

  Historical background British rule in Ireland was brought to a head by the potato famine of the 1840s. There followed mass migration and a...

Historical context This post-Victorian period is marked by industrial expansion, urban growth, and shifting class structures that loosen the...

  Historical background The formal transfer of power from the East India Company to the Crown took place just two generations before the pub...

In the Bookclub this year we will discuss the novels in English of modernist writers, focusing on how they created this cultural movement. M...

Historical background Towards the end of the 18th. century imperialism was at its zenith in the UK. However it had differing interpretations...

Historical Context The Victorian era (1837-1901) was characterised by industrial expansion, cultural flourishing, and the expansion of the B...

Historical background   Victorian ethics, which were contradictory to the point of hypocrisy, featured a code of repressive sexual morality,...

  Historical context Victorian society at end of the 19th century in the UK continued the painful social changes involved in the gradual tra...