Synopsis

Diana Moore, a retired civil servant, found inspiration in the prose of Rudyard Kipling during her time at Bristol Polytechnic with Magnus Magnusson. Ian Christie, a psychiatrist, was drawn to *The Old Pretender and his sons*. Sheila Altree, a school laboratory technician, appreciated the ghost stories of M. R. James. And Ian McKillop, a pharmacy technician with the Royal Army Medical Corps, explored the *History of the Labour Party since 1945*.