In our new series, Houses with History, we ask interior designers to take us on a tour of a house of significance that they have some relationship with, that has inspired their own aesthetic and approach to design. In the first of the series, @lucyhammondgiles, Associate Director at @sibylcolefax invites us inside Charleston, once the home of the artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Nestled between the hills of the South Downs in Sussex, Charleston was a gathering place for the artists, writer

The Bloomsbury Group | English literature

In the early 1900s, a group of young thinkers known as 'The Bloomsbury Group' challenged the strict values that had condemned Oscar Wilde to prison. At its heart was writer Lytton Strachey, alongside Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, economist John Maynard Keynes, and artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant – amongst others. They celebrated the arts and chose to live in bold, unconventional ways. Open-minded in both their politics and personal life, they questioned traditional ideas about love, identi