This volume makes its strong impression through the juxtaposition of the pleasures of food, wine, movement, and places with the horrors of human violence and cruelty and the well-meant but often in practice grotesque or...
Textual Production
Brigid Brophy
After John Profumo
resigned from the Cabinet on 4 June 1963 following his detection in a lie to the House of Commons
about his relationship with a prostitute, the BBC
commissioned BB
for a talk...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Ali Smith
Autumn centres around the intergenerational friendship of 32-year-old art-history lecturer Elisabeth Demand and her childhood neighbour, the clever and lively Daniel Gluck, now 101 years old and quietly existing in a care home. Through silent...
Timeline
4 June 1963: John Profumo, Secretary of State for War,...
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4 June 1963
John Profumo
, Secretary of State for War, resigned after he was found to have lied in the House of Commons about his relations with call-girl Christine Keeler
.
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Roberts, Clayton, and David Roberts. A History of England: 1688 to the Present. Prentice-Hall, 1980.
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19 October 1963: Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative) became...
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19 October 1963
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
(Conservative) became Prime Minister when Macmillan
resigned on health grounds following the Profumo
scandal.
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