For instance, Christopher Sykes, in a sympathetic 1972 biography of Nancy Astor, argues that the entire story about the so-called Cliveden Set was an ideologically motivated fabrication by Claud Cockburn that came to be generally accepted by a public looking for scapegoats for British pre-war appeasement of Adolf Hitler.

Moving to England, he animated sequences for the children's series Do Not Adjust Your Set, which also featured Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.

* 1903: Siebe Gorman starts to make a submarine escape set in England ; in the years afterwards it was improved, and later was called the Davis Escape Set or Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus.

Set in the coastal town of Brighton, England, Dirty Weekend follows the story of Bella, a mild-mannered secretary who works from home in a basement flat.

Set in Northeast England, humour was based on the tension between Terry's firmly working-class outlook and Bob's aspirations to join the middle class, through his new white-collar job, suburban home, and impending marriage to prissy librarian Thelma Chambers ( Brigit Forsyth ).

Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century.

Set after the English Civil War, Sir Edmund is ( apparently ) a loyal royalist and friend of Charles I of England, played by Stephen Fry.

Set in England in 2021, it centres on the results of mass infertility.

** Orchestral Set no. 1: Three Places in New England

Set in northern England, it stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner father, Jamie Draven as Billy's older brother, and Julie Walters as his ballet teacher.

* Sturgeon feeding on the remains of a fish at Eccleston Delph, Lancashire England – Set of images on Flickr

* Set of documents relating to the Socialist Alliance hosted by the Socialist Party of England and Wales.

Set in nineteenth-century England, the story centres around the fictional " Waterloo " tontine, established to benefit veterans of the Napoleonic wars.

Set in the Depression-era England, the novel depicts the lengthy journey a rough collie makes to be reunited with her young Yorkshire master after his family is forced to sell her for money.

Set in medieval England, the plot nominally concerns the struggle to restore the rightful heir, a baby, to the throne after the King and all his family have been disposed of.

Set in contemporary England, the film follows Doctor Brockton ( Joan Crawford ) who learns that in the caves of the countryside, a troglodyte is alive and might be able to be helped and even domesticated.

Set in the attractive garden village of Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, also created by Lord Lever, the gallery is famous for its British 18th-century and 19th-century paintings, 18th-century furniture and an outstanding collection of Wedgwood.

Set in England in the 1670s, it is the story of a young cider-presser, Jonathan Dymond, his dark family secrets, and the young beggar woman he tries to help.

Set in England immediately after the Second World War, the novel narrates the story of Edward Allison, an English soldier who had been badly wounded during the war.

Set in Victorian England during the 1890s, it tells a coming of age story about a young woman named Nan who falls in love with a male impersonator, follows her to London, and finds various ways to support herself as she journeys through the city.

Set in England in the lead-up to and during World War II, it portrays Lewis Eliot's friendship with the gifted scholar and remarkable individual Roy Calvert, and Calvert's inner turmoil and quest for meaning in life.

Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's ( Benjamin Whitrow and Alison Steadman ) five unmarried daughters ( Susannah Harker, Jennifer Ehle, Lucy Briers, Polly Maberly, Julia Sawalha ) after the rich and eligible Mr. Bingley ( Crispin Bonham-Carter ) and his status-conscious friend, Mr. Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood.

Set simultaneously in Montevideo in the seventies and the North of England in the present time, the plot revolves around abduction and denial.

Set in Berkshire, England, during World War I, The Fox, like many of D. H. Lawrence ’ s other major works, deals with the psychological relationships of three protagonists in a triangle of love and hatred.

Set in early 20th century New England, the film is about a serial killer who is murdering disabled young women in the community.

Set in the fictional town of Darnley Mills in North East England, Colonel Sheperton's Clock involves a schoolboy mystery woven into an account of a boy's surgery to heal a disabled leg.

Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial and agricultural industries.

Set in the 19th century, it explores the events which follow the accidental capture of a group of English children by pirates: the children are revealed as considerably more amoral than the pirates ( it was in this novel that Hughes first described the cocktail Hangman's Blood ).

* Set a century after the Russian Revolution, 2017 is a novel by Olga Slavnikova, and the winner of the 2006 Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize.

Set in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the Formics ( an insectoid alien species normally called " Buggers " by most of the population ).

Set in the 80s and 90s zine heyday, Walking Man by Tim W. Brown is a comic novel written in the form of a scandalous tell-all biography that portrays the life and times of Brian Walker, publisher of the zine Walking Man, who rises from humble origins to become the most famous zinester in America.

Set from late 1925 to late 1927, the novel includes detailed descriptions of Sam and Fran's tours across Europe.

Relatively few works of fiction have Tintagel as a setting: these include Anthony Trollope's short story Malachi's Cove and the Williamsons ' epistolary novel Set in Silver, 1909 ( by Charles and Alice Williamson ).

Set in Venetian Slovenia, the novel, published under a pseudonym in the Yugoslav town of Ljubljana, described the efforts of a local Roman Catholic priest to preserve the use of Slovene language in church against the policies of the Italian Fascist regime.

The 2011 fictional novel, " The Berlin Boxing Club " by Robert Sharenow Set in 1930's Berlin, Germany.

Some of Styron ’ s experiences during this period inspired his third published book Set This House on Fire ( 1960 ), a novel about intellectual American expatriates on the Riviera.

Styron, feeling wounded by his first truly harsh reviews for Set This House On Fire, would spend the years after its publication both researching and composing his next novel, the fictitious memoirs of the historical Nathaniel " Nat " Turner, a slave who led a slave rebellion in 1831.

Set in Mississippi sixty-seven years after the American Civil War ended race-based slavery and twelve years after the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution entitled American women to vote, this novel by William Faulkner shows how racism and misogyny can persist ; but its exploration of human prejudices goes well beyond those two.

The Steel General, Set, and some others practice a novel martial art called temporal fugue.

Set in 1547, the novel tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London ; and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII.

Set in Swinging London, the novel describes one day in the life of Adam Appleby, who lives in constant fear that his wife might be pregnant again with a fourth child.

The novel narrates main character Janie Crawford's " ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny .” Set in central and southern Florida in the early 20th century, the novel was initially poorly received for its rejection of racial uplift literary prescriptions.

Set in Thailand, the novel is told from the point of view of a fictional narrator named Mischa Berlinski.

Set in Hollywood in the 1960s, the novel also contains candid and irreverent glimpses into the machinations within the film industry.

Set during the time of the sexual revolution, a central part of the novel is its recurring theme of sexuality.

Set in British India in the mid-19th century, Lakmé is based on the 1880 novel by Pierre Loti.

Set both in the 18th century and the present day and centred on the mystery of an inscription on a rock about a death from exposure, the novel seeks to explain time and history in terms of setting and interaction.

* Gore Vidal in his 1948 novel The City and the Pillar: " The Cliveden-Churchill Set are too well entrenched and I shouldn't be in the least surprised if they created some sort of dictatorship that could never be thrown off without a revolution.

The World Set Free is a novel published in 1914 by H. G. Wells.

Set in present-day Toronto, Ontario, the novel begins with three women ( Roz, Charis, and Tony ) who meet once a month in a restaurant to share a meal.