“... radical idealism’ shared with Hampstead and Highgate. Francisco Sutherland quotes the son of Walter Greaves, one of the area’s leading architects, on what it was like growing up there in the 1960s: ‘In retrospect I realised that my parents were very progressive compared to my friends’ parents, and I was surrounded by modernism and fascinating ...”

“... vehicles aren’t heading the same way. Woolf, like Eliot (or for that matter like Paul Nash or Stanley Spencer, both brought in as supporting testimony), was by the late 1930s a middle-aged artist with a reputation to live up to, or live down: in each of these acts, a major dynamic had become internal dialogue. Piper by contrast remained as yet one ...”