Bedford, Sybille
Sybille Bedford was a sternly disciplined novelist and travel writer. Many of her works are partly autobiographical. A Legacy, Bedford’s second book and first novel, was published in 1956 and was described by Francis King as ‘one of the great books of the 20th Century’. In her lifetime, she published three more novels as well as numerous […]
Barstow, Stan
Barker, Sebastian
Barnes, Peter
Peter Barnes was an Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Barnes achieved critical acclaim and box-office success with his baroque comedy, The Ruling Class, in 1968. He later adapted his play into a 1972 film which garnered Peter O’Toole an Oscar nomination before becoming a cult classic. Known best as a playwright of dark historical comedies, Barnes wrote widely for films, […]
Brock, Michael
Blake, Lord
Robert Norman William Blake was a Conservative historian. He is best known for his 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and for The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill, which grew out of his 1968 Ford lectures. He was created a life peer in 1971 as Baron Blake of Braydeston.