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
Socialist Vanguard Group Socialist Vanguard Group The Socialist Vanguard Group was a political group active in the United Kingdom, in various guises, from the 1920s to the 1950s. While always a small organisation, its journal and some of its members became highly influential in the right wing of the Labour Party. The group originated in the late 1920s, as a small group of British sympathisers of the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK), which followed the ideas of Leonard Nelson. Nelson argued for an ethical socialism which opposed democracy and religion and supported animal rights and trade unionism. Gerhard Kunleben of the ISK travelled to