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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Bloomsbury Group
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(nicknamed the Bloomsberries) A circle of talented young writers and artists who began meeting, in about 1905, in the house of Virginia *Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell (at 46 Gordon Square, in the Bloomsbury district of London). They had no specific programme, other than a rejection of Victorian notions of social and sexual propriety, and a belief in the paramount importance of human relationships and of art. The group, which continued to exercise influence in the years after World War I, had particularly strong links with Cambridge. Among the best-known members (not all involved from the start) were Lytton *Strachey, E.M. *Forster, Roger *Fry, Duncan Grant and Maynard *Keynes.
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