Newsletter: Inside the Whale
11 March 2011
Inside the Whale, a collection of essays by Orwell, was first published on this day in 1940. The selection consisted of some of Orwell’s most famous essays: 'Charles Dickens', 'Boys’ Weeklies' and 'Inside the Whale'. We’re delighted that you can no… find out more
Newsletter: Orwell in Sheffield
04 March 2011
In this week’s Wigan Pier diaries, Orwell has travelled from Wigan to Liverpool, and is now in Sheffield. Orwell’s memories of Wigan are ‘slagheaps like mountains, smoke, rows of blackened houses, sticky mud criss-crossed by imprints of clogs, heav… find out more
Newsletter: At the Oxford Literary Festival 2011
25 February 2011
We’re delighted to be heading to the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival for a fourth year, with three panel discussions. On Sunday 3rd April, we’ll be marking the 75th anniversary of Rudyard Kipling’s death with an Orwell vs Kipling debate … find out more
Newsletter: Orwell’s notes on Wigan
18 February 2011
If you’re enjoying our Wigan Pier diary blog, you might also want to take a look at Orwell’s notes on Wigan. In addition to the diary, Orwell conducted a great deal of research, spending a lot of time in public libraries and writing to local off… find out more
Newsletter: Cigarettes and Alcohol
11 February 2011
Two famous Orwell essays celebrated their 65th anniversaries this week. ‘Books vs. Cigarettes’ was first published in Tribune on 8 February 1946. In the essay, Orwell examines the widespread ‘idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is… find out more
Newsletter: ‘Did not want to spend night in streets’
04 February 2011
We’re now a few days into our project of blogging Orwell’s Wigan Pier diaries from 1936, 75 years to the day after each was written. Orwell is currently in Manchester, and will be heading for Wigan itself shortly. Granta Magazine carried a couple of … find out more
Newsletter: Blogging Orwell’s Wigan Pier diary
31 January 2011
We’re delighted to announce that from today, Monday 31st January, we’ll be ‘post-blogging’ Orwell’s 1936 Wigan Pier diaries. Between 31st January and 25th March 1936, Orwell travelled around the Midlands and the north of England, keeping a diar… find out more
Orwell Prize to blog George Orwell’s Wigan Pier diaries
31 January 2011
Diary entries to be posted 75 years after they were written Orwell Prize 2011 receives record number of entries The Orwell Prize, Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing, is to blog George Orwell’s diary from his journey to Wigan Pi… find out more
Newsletter: Orwell on Kipling
21 January 2011
Rudyard Kipling died 75 years ago this week (on 18th January 1936). Orwell wrote an essay on Kipling (for Horizon in 1942), which you can now read on our website. Both writers were born in India, and wrote about the British Empire – although from rathe… find out more
Newsletter: Entries close 19th January
14 January 2011
Happy New Year – and with the start of the new year comes the end of the submission period for the Orwell Prize 2011. If you would like to enter this year’s Book Prize, Journalism Prize or Blog Prize, submissions close on Wednesday 19th January … find out more