The Orwell Lecture 2024: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
16 October 2024
British-Iranian author Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe delivers this year’s Orwell Memorial Lecture, set up to shine a light on brave writing. We are delighted to welcome Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to give this year's lecture, which takes place at th… find out more
25th June: Orwell and his circle
24 May 2024
Orwell and his circle: Ariane Bankes and D. J. Taylor in conversation 6pm – 8pm, Tuesday 25th June Venue: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, South Wing, Wilkins Building, University College London On the day of George Orwell’s birthday, join The Orwell … find out more
19th June: Orwell Prize shortlist readings
24 May 2024
Join us at Waterstones Gower Street, the largest bookshop in Europe, for an evening celebrating some of this year's Orwell Prize finalists. This event will bring together writers working in different forms from the shortlists for our prizes for Political … find out more
16th June: George Orwell’s London
24 May 2024
Led by experienced tour guide Michael King George Orwell spent a considerable period, especially in the 1940s, living and working in central London. On this walk, led by Michael King from the Orwell Society, which will last approximately three hours, we … find out more
15th June: George Orwell’s Hampstead
24 May 2024
Led by experienced tour guide Michael King Although he only lived in Hampstead for about 15 months in the mid-1930s, this was an important period in George Orwell’s life. On this walk, led by Michael King from the Orwell Society, we will see the plaq… find out more
12th June: The Political Quarterly Conversation
24 May 2024
The Political Quarterly Conversation “Facing unpleasant facts”: What can the next government do about the economy? with Stephanie Flanders and Professor Michael Jacobs Chair: Gavin Kelly (Resolution Foundation) 7pm – 8.30pm, Wednesday 12th June … find out more
Reading and Misreading Orwell
18 December 2023
The Orwell Foundation and the Institute of Advanced Studies are delighted to welcome Dr Débora Tavares (University of São Paulo) and Dr Nathan Waddell (University of Birmingham) for two talks on 'reading and misreading' the work of George Orwell. Fre… find out more
The Orwell Lecture 2023
11 October 2023
Anti-corruption campaigner Bill Browder will deliver this year’s Orwell Memorial Lecture, In Front of Your Nose: Putin, Russia and What We Failed to See. The lecture, which is a public event, will take place on Wednesday 22nd November at University C… find out more
George Orwell’s Hampstead
24 May 2023
Led by Michael King, experienced tour guide and Orwell Society member Pond Street Gardens, 11.45am Although he only lived in Hampstead for about 15 months in the mid-1930s, this was an important period in George Orwell’s life. On this walk, led by M… find out more
The Political Quarterly Conversation: Polly Toynbee – An Uneasy Inheritance
24 May 2023
Join acclaimed author and past winner of the Orwell Prize for Journalism, Polly Toynbee, as she discusses her latest book An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals. In it, she explores how, while for generations her ancestors have been committe… find out more
Orwell and Empire (at Pushkin House)
24 May 2023
Join Phillipe Sands, author of The Last Colony (shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2023), Douglas Kerr, author of Orwell and Empire, and Kojo Koram, author of Uncommon Wealth (shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2022) as they explore first what Kerr calls Orwe… find out more
The Orwell Festival Lecture 2023
24 May 2023
Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in England. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine and the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Ty… find out more
Orwell Youth Prize Regional Hub at Coventry University
01 March 2023
10th March 2023, Coventry University On Friday 10th March more than 100 school students from across the West Midlands will come together at Coventry University for a unique day of creative writing and journalism workshops inspired by the 2023 Orwell… find out more
The Orwell Memorial Lecture 2022
15 November 2022
About this event The Orwell Foundation is delighted to announce that Lisa Nandy MP will deliver this year's Orwell Lecture. Lisa will be talking about the lessons she has learnt from over a decade at the forefront of British politics as Member of Parliam… find out more
George Monbiot on Journalism, Politics and the Climate Crisis
01 September 2022
Join us for a discussion with writer and journalist George Monbiot, winner of the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2022 Describing the environmental crisis as the greatest challenge humankind has ever confronted, George Monbiot has been trying… find out more
The Orwell Festival: Who’s Killing Our Daughters?
05 July 2022
Join us for this essential debate on how and why, too often, society is failing to keep women safe. The murder of Sarah Everard was billed as a watershed moment, yet at least another 125 women were killed by men in the following twelve months. A panel of … find out more
The Orwell Festival: Crackdown on Dissent
05 July 2022
In what promises to be an event that is truly global in scope, covering Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Russia, Rwanda, and Ukraine, join Ali Fowle, Drew Ambrose, Michela Wrong, and Polina Ivanova as they reflect upon the similarities and dissimilarities of the crac… find out more
The Orwell Festival: J.O. Morgan on APPLIANCE
05 July 2022
Join us for a discussion with poet and novelist J.O. Morgan on his Orwell Prize for Political Fiction shortlisted novel Appliance, a highly inventive and and humane novel about our relationship with technology and our addiction to innovation, with Orwe… find out more
The Orwell Festival: Children and Care
05 July 2022
There are now more children in care than ever before, and not because of a rise in physical or sexual abuse, but because of complex factors that are overlooked and misunderstood. In her Orwell-shortlisted book Behind Closed Doors, Polly Curtis invest… find out more
The Orwell Festival: George Monbiot in conversation
28 June 2022
Describing the environmental crisis as the greatest challenge humankind has ever confronted, George Monbiot has been trying to raise the profile of a wide range of desperately neglected environmental issues for the last 37 years. Yet these issues are almo… find out more
