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Year 12 - Literature Text - Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro: Remains of the Day

Year 12

“I should . . . try to make the best of what remains of my day.”

Historical Context of Novel

Click on the image above to find out about the Treaty of Versaille.

Oswald Mosley 

Britannica article on the English fascist leader Oswald Mosley as mentioned in The Remains of the Day.

Fascism 

A detailed article on fascism, its histories and the different forms of fascism including links to English fascism pre-ww11.

Making friends with Hitler

 An article which explains some of the background to the links between the British aristocracy in the 1920s and 1930s and Hitler's Nazi movement.

Joachim Von Ribbentrop, German ambassador who features in the novel. An interesting article outlining relations between England and Germany between the wars. Click on the image above.

British Royals and their Nazi connections

An article from SBS on the connections between the British royal family of the 1930s and their friendship with Hitler and Germany.