Literary history
H
G Wells: Visionary novelist
Wells forecast 20th-century society so accurately that he has been dubbed 'the
man who invented tomorrow'.
Philip
Larkin: Love and death in
Hull
Places Larkin in the wider poetic context and delves into his bleak mindset,
framed by his parents' drab and miserable life, and his oppressive ever-present
awareness of death.
- 70 Years of Black TV Drama in Britain
Article that traces the participation (or lack of it) of black people in British TV drama from the 1950s to the present. - Aldous
Huxley: Prophetic writer
In Brave New World, Huxley created a society where babies were engineered to a specific social status and happiness was controlled by drugs. - Allied tears, German tears
Historian Gregor Dallas reveals how the Allies and the Germans viewed the 1929 novel All Quiet on the Western Front completely differently. - Arthur
C Clarke: Literary space man
Author of more than 80 books, Clarke accurately predicted the future so regularly that he won the respect of the scientific community. - Hello Culture
What is culture and how does the past impact the present? Here is a ‘grid’ of 160 entries that allows users to experience the heyday and remnants of Romanticism. - Isaac
Asimov: Writing machine
A prolific writer and widely considered a genius, Asimov went on to write over 500 books, but is best known for his science fiction. - John
Betjeman
The high Tory lyricist, deeply insecure about his social background and his gift for poetry, who was hailed by The Times as 'Teddy Bear to the Nation'. - Modernism and Pop
Part of A Guide to the 20th Century, this covers art, architecture, music, literature, film and more. - The
Real James Bond
The story of Ian Fleming, the creator of the spy James Bond, who was the fulfilment of Fleming's own fantasies. - Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle: Legendary crime writer
The creator of the first fictional detective to use forensic science to solve crimes. - Soldier
Poets
Two poets – Alun Lewis and Keith Douglas, who served and died young in World War II – are rescued from oblivion. - The
Story of the Novel
The rise of this popular art form, from the fledgling days with Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe in 1719 to writers who have dominated the second half of the 20th century and the birth of the new millennium.
