Edward Ardizzone grew up in Shiplake, a village on the Thames, at the same time and with the same friends as George #Orwell :

orwellsociety.com/the-ardizzones…

'Winston was in Victory Square before the appointed time. He wandered round the base of the enormous fluted column, at the top of which Big Brother's statue gazed southward towards the skies where he had vanquished the Eurasian aeroplanes... in the Battle of Airstrip One.'

George #Orwell worked at Booklovers' Corner in Hampstead, London:

orwellsociety.com/up-and-about-2…

But has working in a bookshop changed in any way since George #Orwell described it in 1936?
fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2012/01/booksh…

'...paranoiac customers and dead bluebottles'

Certainly an argument worth making.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_the_…

#Orwell

Join me in a discussion of #Orwell 's #AnimalFarm Toronto Public Library here! CBU Research CBU The Orwell Prize crowdcast.io/c/a3syxf76l7z0

Here is a recent close reading of 'Wifedom':

quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/…

Although #Orwell did say 'In most people his [Charles Reade] name seems to evoke, at most, a vague memory of “doing” The Cloister and the Hearth as a school holiday task.'

Should anyone be interested, here’s a link to a piece I put together for BBC Radio Scotland a few years ago (with some help from Nick Lloyd Nick Lloyd about the Scots involved in the Spanish Civil War.

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

'It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back!'

George #Orwell , Animal Farm

Australian National Radio. 30 minutes : Remembering the Spanish Civil war. To document and discuss the conflict and the international response, a new Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil war is being created by historians from some 30 countries. abc.net.au/listen/program…

Orwell and the Past
An article by DJ Taylor
aspectsofhistory.com/orwell-the-pas…

Read Orwell: The New Life
amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BHD2Y6T5

George Orwell

#biography #georgeorwell #historymatters

The Orwell Society Dystopian Fiction Prize 2024.
The short-listed semi-finalists have been announced, and are:
'Eighteen Tomorrow' by Hassan Akram
'When Fillings Burn' by Löis Bolton
'Simulation or Damnation' by Leo Otoiu
orwellsociety.com/education/orwe…
Victor to be announced.

“ #DJTaylor reconstructs the months, days and weeks prior to #GeorgeOrwell ’s death, with the help of select items and letters from the Orwell Archive, which is held at University College London.” penguin.co.uk/authors/9434/g…
#Frankenstein penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/626177/f…

Evelyn Waugh died on #OTD , 10 April 1966.

You'll find several discussions of his relationship with George #Orwell on Orwell Society website, including:

orwellsociety.com/orwell-in-the-…

London, 15th of October 1934
#Orwell pens an introduction to French translation of Down & Out... Here it is reverse-engineered back into something approaching its original form.
Bilingual site…
duncanroberts.co.uk/fr/intro

Darcy Moore Orwell Society Nick Lloyd nicragonneau

Orwell Society Thanks, Orwell Society. Lisa Mullen's lecture on Keep the Aspidistra Flying was terrific, and we had a great discussion afterwards.

'... for all these careful qualifications and amendments, it remains true that much science fiction - and often the most interesting examples, in both literature and the cinema - is indeed dystopian'
theconversation.com/science-fictio…

Looking a bit frazzled after much-delayed six and a half hour train journey, but great night at Newcastle The Lit and Phil Nice to see several Orwell Society members Yale University Press London📚 @LittBrownUK

And there's more. We've been reading 'year84' by Brennan Conaway - Nineteen Eighty-Four rewritten in Newspeak.

orwellsociety.com/unluv-week/