Bloomsbury Group and outlook deeply influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics as well as modern attitudes towards feminism, pacifism, and sexuality. All male members of the Bloomsbury Group, except Duncan Grant, were educated at Cambridge (either at Trinity or King’s College). Most of them, except Clive Bell and the Stephen brothers, were members of "the exclusive Cambridge society, the 'Apostles'". At Trinity in 1899 Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, Saxon Sydney-Turner and Clive Bell became good friends with Thoby Stephen, and it was through Thoby and Adrian Stephen's sisters Vanessa and Virginia that the men met the women of Bloomsbury when they came
The Midland Group coinciding with the East Midlands Arts review of the Midland Group . In 1981 it was noted that the Arts Council and East Midlands Arts were ‘unhappy with the structure of the Midland Group’, a view which indicates the increased involvement of national and regional structures in the direction of the Group at this time. The Midland Group The Midland Group was an organisation that presented new art in Nottingham and the East Midlands between 1943 and 1987. The Midland Group of Artists was established in Nottingham in 1943. Its first gallery occupied one room, at 38 Bridlesmith Gate. After