Written by the English and Media Centre with the Learning Team at the British Library, this free pack shows you how to make the most of the wealth of materials on the Discovering Literature website. Alongside digitized manuscripts and...

Find out how war and conflict shaped literature throughout the 20th century.

Explore the world of Twentieth Century British literature through this informative site. Find out how and why Georgian and Modernism movements developed. Includes a quiz.

Read a summary of Una Marson's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles, collection items, and teacher resources.

Read a summary of Andrea Levy's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles, collection items, and teacher resources.

Read a summary of Hanif Kureishi's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles and collection items.

Read a summary of E.R. Braithwaite's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles and collection items.

"The Buddha of Suburbia" is a bestselling novel by the British writer Hanif Kureishi. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.

"Crash" is a novel by the British writer J.G. Ballard, published in 1973. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.

Read an overview of "Wise Children" by Angela Carter and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.

This article describes how four writers, taken from Africa as children and sold into slavery, grew up to write works that challenged British ideas about race, called for African brotherhood, and demanded the abolition of the slave trade.

Explore key literary works of the early 20th- century with these articles.

Discover the ways in which writers captured the fast-changing world around them during the 20th Century.

Discover how European cities were crucibles for modernist experimentation.

A series of articles that research how gender roles were defined in the 19th century, and how they were represented in the literature of the period.

View a series of extracts from eighteenth-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people in England ate during this period of overseas expansion, urbanization, and early industrialization. Accompanying essays explain various...

Excerpt taken from "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature," this site places Donne amidst Elizabethan poets of his era and defines Donne apart from them.

This famous British duo recount their stay with the fictional Sir Roger and his acquaintances in this e-book. Multiple formats are available for download or reading online.

A Child's History Of England by Charles Dickens offers the opportunity to learn the history of England as told by one of the finest storytellers of English literature. The book begins with Roman Britannia and proceeds chronologically to...

View a series of extracts from ninetheen-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people in England ate during this century of change. Accompanying essays explain various aspects of the English diet of the Victorian period,...

Read a summary of Katherine Mansfield's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles and collection items.

Read a summary of Jame Joyce's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles and collection items.

Read a summary of Daphne du Maurier's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles and collection items.

Read a summary of Sylvia Plath's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles, collection items, and teacher resources.