A Taste of Sparta - book launch by Richard Graves
Sat 31 Jan
|Totterdown
On 24th January, Richard Graves will be launching his latest book, A Taste of Sparta, at the Club. A unique social history, the book provides the most authoritative and occasionally harrowing account to date of life in a boy's Preparatory School in the 1950s.
Time & Location
31 Jan 2026, 16:00 – 18:00
Totterdown, 162 Wells Rd, Totterdown, Bristol BS4 2AG, UK
About the event
Please join Richard Graves at the launch of his new book, A Taste of Sparta, on Saturday 24 January from 4-6pm. A Taste of Sparta is a unique social history providing the most authoritative and occasionally harrowing account to date of life in a boy's Preparatory School in the 1950s.
Richard Perceval Graves is an acclaimed biographer who has now turned the spotlight on his own early life and times. He was born into a very different world, with no internet, no smartphones and no social media. Here is a description of what it was like to be brought up in those days: how children were educated, the kind of lives they led both at school and at home, the seaside holidays they went on, the books, newspapers and comics that they read, the poems they learned, the songs they sang, and the television and films that they watched.
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