They started the fashion for treasure hunts and masquerades that defined high society in the 1920s and even went as far as to try and...

"Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?" Sir Noël Peirce Coward, born 16 December 1899, was an English playwright,...

Anthony Dymoke Powell, born 21 December 1905 in Westminster, was an English novelist. He attended Eton where he made a friend of a fellow...

The Three Fates, Aesop's Fables and lascivious animals all combine in an eccentric genius' romantic vision of the middle ages.

Hugh Patrick Lygon was born 2 November 1904 in Rothenburg, Bavaria. He is often believed to be the one of the main inspirations for Lord...

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...

Elliott Smith, born August 6, 1969 was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.