Quentin Kopp, Chair of the Orwell Society, reports on art inspired by George Orwell’s Scottish island home * Liz and I had…

Is George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Typewriter Hiding in a Leith Attic? asks Charlie Ellis For lovers of literature, the…

Bruce Dear, Orwell Society Education Officer, reports on a visit to Barnsley, accompanied by OS Chair, Quentin Kopp * With…

The third of the towns visited by George Orwell in 1936, after Wigan and Sheffield, was Barnsley. He arrived in mid-March. The…

Did George Orwell say ‘If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their…

Did George Orwell say ‘The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their…

Did George Orwell say ‘People Sleep Peacefully in Their Beds at Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready to Do Violence on…

* George Orwell makes few references to the visual arts, yet he moved in an environment steeped in them via Cyril Connolly, Sonia…

* Orwell Society member Michael O’Sullivan offers us his analysis (first published in 2020 in the RN Artificers’ journal…

* A literary precursor to George Orwell * We should never forget that mining in the British Isles has involved many minerals:…