The Bloomsbury Group was a group of writers, artists and intellectuals that lived in the district of Bloomsbury in the years between the two world wars. The group met to talk, write, but more importantly to enjoy life - the members subscribing to G. E. Moore’s philosophy that ‘by far the most valuable things are the pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful objects’.

Their antics occasionally caused scandal, but nevertheless they were the most influential intellectual group of the era.

Members of the group included the novelist Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell, fellow writer EM Forster, the art critic Royer Fry and the economist John Keynes, who all became famous in their own rights.

The main focus of the group was Gordon Square, where several of the members lived and where the group frequently met.