The Oxford Wits were an identifiable group of literary and intellectual aesthetes and dandies, present as undergraduates at the...

"Come and drink with me somewhere" Alastair Hugh Graham, born 27 June 1904, was an honorary attaché in Athens and Cairo, an Oxford friend...

"Gentleman may prance but not dance."

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh, born 28 October 1903, was an English writer of novels, biographies, travel books and he was also a prolific...

Brian Christian de Claiborne Howard, born the 13 March 1905 was an English poet and later a writer for the New Statesman. Howard was born...

Sunday Wilshin (1905–1991) was a British actress and radio producer; the successor to George Orwell on his resignation in 1943.

Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton, CBE, born 5 July 1904 was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete. Acton was born to a prominent...

Siegfried Sassoon, born 8 September 1886, was an English writer, poet and solider. Siegfried was born to a Jewish father and an...

Edith Olivier, born 31 December 1872, was an English writer. She was also noted for acting as hostess to a circle of well-known writers,...

"Jade green jerseys and scarves (I hope you don't mind) and bright magenta..." Reginald John "Rex" Whistler was a British artist,...

"Stephen Tennant is the most sparkling talker who ever comes to my house, and perhaps the most amusing." "Stephen Tennant was the most...

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE, born 14 January 1904, was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and...

Sir John Betjeman CBE, born in London on 28 August 1906, was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who...

The Bright Young Things, with their classic beauty and often outrageous antics have and continue to be my main source of inspiration. The...