After the Bombardment Jonathan Brockbank
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On 16 December 1914, Scarborough suffered a devastating naval attack - the first to significantly target civilians on English soil during World War I.
Jonathan Brockbank of the University of York discusses the surprise bombardment and compares two fictional responses - Osbert Sitwell's Before the Bombardment and Winifred Holtby's The Crowded Streets. While Sitwell depicts the events as the end of an era, Holtby sees the birth of a new world.
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About the speaker
Jonathan Brockbank is a Teaching and Scholarship Fellow with the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, with a special interest in Yorkshire social realist writers and a website to pursue this interest, Yorkshire Social Realist Writers.
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