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  1. TS Eliot and the Blitz

    4/5 Jonathan Bate investigates how the Blitz motivated TS Eliot's Four Quartets.

  2. The English Civil War and Marvell

    3/5 Jonathan Bate travels to Westminster to investigate the English Civil War.

  3. Peterloo and Shelley

    2/5 Jonathan Bate travels to Manchester to investigate the Peterloo Massacre.

  4. Easter 1916, by WB Yeats

    1/5 Jonathan Bate travels to Dublin to investigate the 1916 Easter Rising.