George Orwell’s political thinking was dramatically shaped while fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Thanks to the influence of the Soviet Union, the Republican side spent a lot of time fighting ...

And chatter among the aristocracy, recorded by George Orwell in his own diary in June 1940, was that ‘Unity is going to have a baby’. But no birth records have ever been discovered ...

Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues ...

75 years on, here’s all the ways the 1984 author’s legacy has been abused Seventy-five years after his death on January 21 1950, George Orwell is still used – and abused – as if he were ...

Presenter of Radio 4's Front Row, Mark Lawson, considers George Orwell's time at the BBC. John Simpson and Hilary Spurling discuss George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Duration: 28:00 'It's like ...

George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” first published in 1949, anticipated our present moment all too well. As part of Winston Smith’s harrowing “re-education” process at the ...

If you care at all about privacy, sovereignty, and freedom, the lessons of George Orwell's 1984 are more relevant than they ever have been. If you care at all about privacy, sovereignty, and freedom, ...

This spring’s newly minted sale will bring together a range of collecting areas, including early printed books, artist’s books, literature from the seventeenth century through to the twentieth, and ...

A new £2 coin honouring the life and works of author George Orwell has been unveiled by the Royal Mint. Commemorating the 75th anniversary of Orwell's death, the tails side of the coin will read ...

A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the United Kingdom 50 years ago was finally returned by a mortified borrower. The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was ...

British literary giant George Orwell, famed for his novels '1984' and 'Animal Farm', is being commemorated with a new £2 coin by the Royal Mint. This special issue marks 75 years since the author ...