Arundel Literary Festival

Michael Ward, who once worked in local Government and as CEO of the London Development Agency, and Jane Winter (see her session on March 8) have each written biographies based on reforming figures who lived through the first half of the twentieth century and many of whose interests overlapped. They will discuss aspects of Michael’s book Unceasing war on poverty; Beatrice and Sidney Webb and their World, ( hopefully copies will be available). Also they will consider some of the commonalities of political and social values shown by their central subjects in connections to movements like the Cambridge Fabians, the Neo-Pagans, and to the Bloomsbury set. Many of these values are once more under debate and attack today.