Though George Orwell may have famously touted 1984 as a year defined by authoritarianism and ... From young skateboarders honing their skills to the first untethered space walk in history, here are 36 ...
George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore ...
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 ... The main character, Winston Smith, fulfills his duty at ...
George Orwell escaped to a remote Scottish island ... Richard. Rob knows the history of the house because it was his grandparents who rented it to Orwell back in the 1940s. He thinks for a minute ...
Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography ... and Syndicalists were realized in their reports where history appeared "not in terms of what happened but of what ...
The George Orwell statue has been unveiled outside BBC New Broadcasting House The BBC headquarters in London has got a new resident: he's tall, bronze and likes a smoke. A statue of novelist ...
George Orwell’s political thinking was dramatically ... Orwell was worried about “the end of history” The mass proliferation of Stalinist propaganda in the Spanish Civil War caused Orwell ...
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 ...
In George Orwell’s classic depiction of an authoritarian society, “Nineteen Eighty-four,” a key component of political control is the state’s erasure of history: “Every record has been ...