Keywords, an exhibition building on Raymond Williams’ study, of the same name about the vocabulary of culture and society.

First published in 1976, ‘Keywords’ has become a seminal work in the study of the English language as well as the fields of Cultural Studies and Visual Culture.

The exhibition, spanning a twenty year period from the first publication of the book to the last year of Conservative rule in 1996, has a strong focus on British art of the 1980s.