12 posters plus promotional posters.
Shows how Charles Dickens used his novels and newspaper articles to show the injustice of a society corrupted by tradition, prejudice and materialism. The industrial revolution changed Britain from a rural to an urban society and there was ugente need for social reform, extended voting rights, a public health system and free education.
24 posters with booklets giving biographical details and promotional posters.
Survey of British dramatists from 1956 to 1992, with photographs from 100 plays, films and television productions.
27 posters with promotional posters and postcards with select lists of the novelists' works.
A wide-ranging survey by Alastair Niven of contemporary British novelists.
23 posters and promotional posters plus other materials.
Devised and written by Anthony Thwaite on some seventy poets, most still actively writing, some emerging only recently. Together they show the variety, richness and conflicts of contemporary poetry. Text in English. Plus booklets giving biographical details of the writers, a cassette of poets reading their work (W H Auden, S Spender, J Betjeman, W Empson, S Smith, P Larkin, T Hughes, S Plath, G MacBeth, C Causley, S Heaney, R S Thomas, E Jennings and G Ewart), a video of five poets reading their works.
16 posters.
Designed by Michael Burke to give an overview of D H Lawrence's life and works from 1885 to 1930.
28 posters with promotional posters.
This exhibition traces the life and works of composer Henry Purcell and poet John Dryden, set in the context of the arts, society, science and politics of the period 1660-1710.
16 posters with promotional posters
Graham Greene wrote his first novel over sixty years ago. As novelist, essayist and playwright, he has created a body of literature as important as any in the 20th Century. This exhibition looks at his major works in the context of his own life, as told in his autobiographical works.
20 posters with booklets giving a selected bibliography.
Scottish writing from 1920 onwards.
Imagine is an exhibition for children, exploring the relationship between art, story and the imagination. It features an exciting range of hands-on activities, including writing, drawing and designing. Many of the books included in the exhibition have a multicultural emphasis and the exhibition as a whole is very suitable for activities with children and young learners.
14 posters with promotional posters.
The life and works of Lewis Carrol, author of Alice in Wonderland.
posters
Conceived to add extra interest to ‘Tube’ journeys in London, the first poem ‘Burns' Up in the morning early’ appeared in 1986. The project has inspired similar displays on public transport from Dublin to Shanghai. See the poems on the web.
20 posters plus booklets with an introduction to British crime fiction by P D James and biographical details of 68 writers. Promotional posters also available.
Survey of 65 British crime writers from Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell and Colin Dexter.
14 posters with booklets
History of the Liverpool rock band who changed the world of pop music, with pictures and chronology.
20 posters plus select reading list
A bird's eye view of contemporary British literature with an emphasis on variety. Some of the writers included have had long, distinguished careers, while others have perhaps published a few works.
12 posters
This exhibition looks at all major aspects of T S Eliot's life and works.
8 posters with promotional posters
An exhibition about one of the major innovative novelists of the 20th Century, best known for her use of stream of consciousness.
12 posters with promotional posters and booklets giving biographical details.
The life and works of William Golding (1911-1993), author of ‘Lord of the Flies’.. The booklet includes two essays: No Full Stop: the movement of Golding's fiction by John Bayley and Publishing Golding by Charles Monteith.
16 posters plus promotional booklets with biographical details and promotional posters.
A wide selection of British travel writers from Coryate and Smollett to Raban and Thurbon. The emphasis is on accounts of travel, but some novels and stories inspired by life abroad are also included.
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