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- Peter Davison: Note on The Road to Wigan Pier
- Gordon Bowker: Orwell’s London
- Francois Bordes: La gauche hétérodoxe et la réception d’Orwell en France (video)
- Akala: Doublethink Interview (video)
- John Baxendale (Sheffield Hallam University): Orwell and Priestley – two ways of being a left-wing writer in 20th Century England
- Gordon Bowker: The Biography Orwell Never Wrote
- Gordon Bowker: Orwell on the S. S. Stratheden
- Gordon Bowker: Orwell’s Library
- Colin Brush: ‘It was a bright cold day in April…’
- Antoine Capet: George Orwell and the ‘phoney left’, 1939-1945 (video)
- James Walton: What a Carry On!
- Marina Remy Abrunhosa: Face-to-face encounters in Orwell’s early works – an aesthetics of the contemporary (video)
- Alan Cox: A reading of ‘An Incident in Rangoon’ (video)
- Gordon Bowker: The Road to Morocco
- Dominic Cavendish: Coming Up for Air revisited – Orwell, England, and the idea of escape (video)
- Bernard Crick: Orwell as a comic writer
- John Crowley, S. Romi Mukherjee: Orwell’s people (video)
- Peter Davison: George Orwell – A Life in Letters (video)
- Peter Davison: Introduction to Burmese Days preliminaries
- Peter Davison: Orwell – religion and ethical values
- Peter Davison: Bibliographical note on Orwell’s Morocco Diaries
- Sébastien Denis: La ferme des animaux revisitée – sur deux films et un album (video)
- Jacques Dewitte: Orwell, un conservateur-libéral-socialiste? (video)
- Olivier Esteves: Orwell, l’empire colonial et l’opinion publique britannique (video)
- Julio Etchart: Burmese Days Revisited
- Giora Goodman: George Orwell and the question of Palestine (video)
- Eric Hobsbawm: Intellectuals and the Spanish Civil War
- Charles Holdefer: ‘As surely doomed as the hippopotamus’ – George Orwell and the anachronistic writer (video)
- Douglas Kerr: Orwell, Kipling, and Empire
- Emma Larkin: Introduction to Burmese Days
- Christophe Le Dréau: George Orwell, icône de l’Europe unie (video)
- Sébastien Lefait: << The Big Screen is watching you >> – 1984 (Michael Radford) ou le Panopticon cinématographique (video)
- Dolores Martin: George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, Rethinking the Spanish Civil War (video)
- Joseph Maslen: Inside the whale of British communism (video)
- Ben Pimlott: Introduction to Orwell’s England
- Pat Rae: Modernist Orwell (video)
- Jean-Jacques Rosat: Ni anarchiste ni tory – Orwell et << la révolte intellectuelle>> (video)
- Loraine Saunders: George Orwell – A Master of Narration
- D. J. Taylor: An Oxfordshire Tomb
- D. J. Taylor: Orwell and the rats
- D. J. Taylor: Orwell’s Face
- D. J. Taylor: Orwell’s Voice
- D. J. Taylor: Big Brother – George Orwell Reflects
- D. J. Taylor: Orwell’s poetry
- Jeremy Tranmer: Big brother watching friends and foes? George Orwell and the British Left (video)
- Dione Venables: Orwell – Plain Speaking and Hidden Agendas
- Philippe Vervaecke: Orwell as heritage – commemorations of Orwell in contemporary Britain, c. 1994-2010 (video)
- D. J. Taylor: The Road to 1984 (video)
- Chris Durlacher: George Orwell – A Life in Pictures
- Peter Davison: Nightmare in Poland Street
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- D. J. Taylor: A brief life
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- Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali
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- Confessions of a Book Reviewer
- Decline of the English Murder
- Freedom of the Park
- George Orwell to Steven Runciman, August 1920
- George Orwell to Victor Gollancz, 9 May 1937
- Good Bad Books
- How The Poor Die
- In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse
- Inside the Whale
- Just Junk – But Who Could Resist It?
- Marrakech
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- Politics vs. Literature: An examination of Gulliver’s Travels
- Raffles and Miss Blandish
- Reflections on Gandhi
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- Spilling the Spanish Beans
- The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
- The Spike
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- In Defence of English Cooking
- A Nice Cup of Tea
- In Front of Your Nose
- Review of The Pub and the People by Mass-Observation
- Charles Dickens
- John Flory – My Epitaph
- Extract, Preliminary to Autobiography
- Extract, The Autobiography of John Flory
- An Incident in Rangoon
- Extract, A Rebuke to the Author, John Flory
- How a Nation Is Exploited – The British Empire in Burma
- A Hanging
- Shooting an Elephant
- Anonymous Review of Burmese Interlude by C. V. Warren
- Anonymous Review of Trials in Burma by Maurice Collis
- Poetry and the Microphone
- Free Will
- Hop-picking
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- ‘Three parties that mattered’: extract from Homage to Catalonia
- Second Thoughts on James Burnham
- The Art of Donald McGill
- Voice – A Magazine Programme, 6
- Can Socialists Be Happy?
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- A Happy Vicar I Might Have Been
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- The Italian Soldier Shook My Hand
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- 15/05/13 Awards Ceremony 2013
- 17/04/13 Orwell Prize Shortlist Event 2013: When censorship declines does freedom emerge?
- 01/02/13 The Irrawaddy Literary Festival
- 22/11/12 Orwell Lecture 2012: Christopher Andrew – The Most Dangerous Moment in British History, Secrets of the 1962 Missile Crisis
- 24/10/12 Launch debate 2013: A crisis in policing?
- 20/09/12 Letchworth 2012: Poverty then and now, Orwell and his successors
- 16/07/12 Buxton 2012: Orwell vs. Kipling
- 23/05/12 Awards Ceremony 2012
- 24/04/12 Orwell Prize Shortlist 2012: Announcement and Debate
- 01/04/12 Oxford 2012: Politics and the press
- 31/03/12 Oxford 2012: The Road to Wigan Pier – 75 years on
- 30/03/12 Oxford 2012: Homage to Catalonia – the Spanish Civil War
- 30/03/12 Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2012
- 28/03/12 Orwell Prize Longlist 2012: Announcement
- 10/11/11 Orwell Lecture 2011: Alan Rusbridger – Hacking away at the truth
- 09/11/11 Launch Debate 2012: Writing the Riots
- 16/10/11 Cheltenham 2011: The Political Network
- 15/10/11 Cheltenham 2011: Victorian Values
- 15/10/11 Orwell Prize at the Cheltenham Literature Festival
- 13/07/11 Buxton 2011: Is politics corrupted by corrupted language?
- 17/05/11 Awards Ceremony 2011
- 26/04/11 Orwell Prize Shortlist 2011: Announcement and Debate
- 05/04/11 Oxford 2011: Does it make a difference who funds the arts?
- 03/04/11 Oxford 2011: Orwell vs Kipling
- 02/04/11 Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2011
- 30/03/11 Orwell Prize Longlist 2011: Announcement and Debate
- 10/03/11 Emirates LitFest Orwell Lecture 2011: Gavin Esler – George Orwell as a prophet of 21st Century culture
- 26/11/10 Orwell Lecture 2010: Ferdinand Mount – Orwell and the Oligarchs
- 18/11/10 Orwell and Russia
- 21/10/10 Launch Debate 2011: Poverty and the Spending Review
- 12/07/10 Buxton 2010: Andrea Gillies in Conversation
- 12/07/10 Buxton 2010: The greatest political writer – Orwell vs Dickens
- 19/05/10 Awards Ceremony 2010
- 12/05/10 Autopsy of a Story
- 15/04/10 Shortlist Debate 2010: Has the political class been fatally weakened?
- 28/03/10 Oxford 2010: What is the BBC for?
- 27/03/10 Oxford 2010: Orwell and Waugh
- 26/03/10 Oxford 2010: Dispatches – Orphans of Burma’s Cyclone
- 26/03/10 Oxford 2010: How intelligent are our intelligence services?
- 26/03/10 Oxford 2010: Screening of Burma VJ
- 26/03/10 Oxford 2010: The future of Burma
- 25/03/10 Oxford 2010: George Orwell – A Life in Pictures
- 25/03/10 Oxford 2010: How do we stop torture – again?
- 24/03/10 Oxford 2010: The future of Great Britain
- 22/03/10 Oxford 2010: The future of policing
- 21/03/10 Oxford 2010: The economy – what next?
- 21/03/10 Oxford 2010: How free should free speech be?
- 21/03/10 Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2010
- 19/03/10 Colloque George Orwell – George Orwell Conference
- 24/02/10 University of Oxford 2010: What can’t you speak about in the 21st Century?
- 09/02/10 Writers in Schools Pilot: D. J. Taylor and David Kynaston, Norwich School
- 17/11/09 Orwell Lecture 2009: Hilary Mantel
- 29/10/09 Launch Debate 2010: What next for Burma?
- 25/08/09 Edinburgh Book Fringe 2009: Raja Shehadeh and Marina Lewycka
- 17/07/09 Buxton 2009: Andrew Brown in Conversation
- 17/07/09 Buxton 2009: What makes a good political novel?
- 04/07/09 Orwell – A Celebration: 1984, Torture
- 27/06/09 Orwell – A Celebration: 1984, Thoughtcrime
- 20/06/09 Orwell – A Celebration: Adapting Orwell
- 13/06/09 Orwell – A Celebration: Coming Up for Air, Unemployment and Uncertainty
- 22/04/09 Awards Ceremony 2009
- 05/04/09 Oxford 2009: Losing Russia?
- 05/04/09 Oxford 2009: What is the big Conservative idea?
- 04/04/09 Oxford 2009: 2009 and 1939 – how do we avoid political crisis after economic crash?
- 03/04/09 Oxford 2009: Richard Blair in Conversation with D. J. Taylor
- 02/04/09 Oxford 2009: Mike Radford 1984 Q&A
- 01/04/09 Oxford 2009: Afghanistan
- 01/04/09 Oxford 2009: Africa and China
- 31/03/09 Oxford 2009: 1984 and Civil Liberties
- 30/03/09 Oxford 2009: Orwell vs Dickens
- 30/03/09 Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2009
- 25/03/09 Shortlist Debate 2009: Are political parties bankrupt?
- 13/11/08 Orwell Lecture 2008: Andrew O’Hagan
- 22/10/08 Launch Debate 2009: Is journalism failing failing states?
- 21/08/08 Edinburgh 2008: Raja Shehadeh in Conversation
- 24/04/08 Awards Ceremony 2008
- 02/04/08 Oxford 2008: Political Diarists on Political Diaries
- 26/03/08 Orwell Prize Shortlist 2008: Announcement and Debate, ‘Has the Left stopped thinking?’
- 06/12/07 Orwell Lecture 2007: Michael Rosen
- 30/11/07 Launch Debate 2008: Orwell, ID Cards, the Citizen and the State
- Winners
- Marie Colvin
- Andrew Norfolk
- A. T. Williams
- Tom Bergin
- Christopher Hitchens
- Rangers Tax-Case
- Amelia Gentleman
- Toby Harnden
- Graeme Archer
- Jenni Russell
- Tom Bingham
- David Lipsey
- Hugo Young
- BBC Newsnight
- Clive James
- Tony Judt
- Neal Ascherson
- Paul Foot and Tim Laxton
- Melanie Phillips
- Ian Bell
- Polly Toynbee
- Robert Fisk
- David McKittrick
- David Aaronovitch
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Brian Sewell
- Vanora Bennett
- Matthew Parris
- Timothy Garton Ash
- Peter Beaumont
- Anatol Lieven
- Fionnuala O’Connor
- Fergal Keane
- Peter Godwin
- Patricia Hollis
- D. M. Thomas
- Brian Cathcart
- Michael Ignatieff
- Miranda Carter
- Francis Wheen
- Robert Cooper
- Michael Collins
- Delia Jarrett-Macauley
- Peter Hennessy
- Vacant
- Raja Shehadeh
- Jack Night
- Patrick Cockburn
- Andrew Brown
- Norma Percy
- Winston Smith
- Peter Hitchens
- Andrea Gillies
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- Orwell and Society
- Less than three weeks to go
- Shortlists announced
- Will Self in Wigan
- 2013 Longlists Announced
- Another record breaking year for the Journalism Prize
- We’re going to Wigan
- The Orwell Prize in Burma
- The Real George Orwell and the BBC
- Orwell Day
- Entries for 2013 prize close on Wednesday
- Merry Christmas
- Reaching for my Gnu
- Raja Shehadeh imagines change with The Orwell Prize
- Open the curtains
- A visit to Wigan
- The Most Dangerous Moment in British History, Secrets of the 1962 Missile Crisis
- Entries are arriving for The Orwell Prize 2013
- Our twentieth prize is open for entries
- The Orwell Prize and the Green Dragon
- On Jura
- Orwell’s England
- Great Lives
- Treading Orwell’s road to Wigan
- Poverty then and now: Orwell and his successors
- Why I wrote Dead Men Risen
- Animal Farm
- The Sporting Spirit
- Rangers Tax-Case on writing politics
- Buxton video
- Orwell’s Kitchener poem
- Orwell the book reviewer
- Buxton Festival and The Orwell Prize
- Happy Birthday to George
- Burmese Days
- Coming Up for Air
- Dickens and O’Shaughnessy
- 1984
- 2012 Winners Announced
- Orwell Prize 2012 winners announced
- 2012 Winners to be announced on Wednesday
- 23rd May Awards Ceremony
- An Invitation
- 2012 Shortlists Announced
- Orwell Prize 2012 Shortlists Announced
- Debate: Our overwhelmingly white media are inevitably delivering ‘white news’.
- Shortlist announcement and debate on 24th April
- Happy Easter
- 2012 Longlists Announced
- Orwell Prize 2012 Longlists Announced
- Longlists to be announced on Wednesday
- Orwell and poetry
- Anniversary of The Road to Wigan Pier’s publication
- The Lion and the Unicorn
- Orwell on Stage
- This year’s entries
- Entry Deadline Next Week
- Reflections on Gandhi
- Merry Christmas
- Orwell and The Observer
- Scotland and St. Andrew’s Day
- Full Judging Line-Up Confirmed
- Open for entries, launch debate video, and lecture
- Launch 2012, ‘Writing the Riots’
- Poverty and Political Blogging – Videos from Cheltenham
- Orwell, Raffles and Gulliver
- One week to Cheltenham
- Orwell on Tramping
- Report on Johann Hari
- Johann Hari returns Orwell Prize
- Orwell in Defence of P. G. Wodehouse
- Orwell’s Hop-Picking Diary Blog
- At the Cheltenham Literature Festival
- Orwell on Hop-picking
- Buxton Festival video
- Buxton Festival Next Wednesday
- Happy Birthday, George!
- At the Buxton Festival, 13th July
- Anniversary of 1984′s publication
- Invitation to this year’s Awards Ceremony
- Video from the Oxford Literary Festival
- 2011 Longlists Announced
- Newsletter: Invitation to this year’s Longlist Announcement and Debate
- Newsletter: Barnsley, Boys’ Weeklies and Amateur Tramping
- Newsletter: Inside the Whale
- Newsletter: Orwell in Sheffield
- Newsletter: At the Oxford Literary Festival 2011
- Newsletter: Orwell’s notes on Wigan
- Newsletter: Cigarettes and Alcohol
- Newsletter: ‘Did not want to spend night in streets’
- Newsletter: Blogging Orwell’s Wigan Pier diary
- Newsletter: Orwell on Kipling
- Newsletter: Entries close 19th January
- News
- Orwell Prize 2013 Winners Announced
- Orwell and Society
- Less than three weeks to go
- Shortlists announced
- Orwell Prize 2013 Shortlists Announced
- Will Self in Wigan
- 2013 Longlists Announced
- Orwell Prize 2013 Longlists Announced
- Another record breaking year for the Journalism Prize
- Press release: Taking Orwell back to Wigan
- We’re going to Wigan
- The Orwell Prize in Burma
- Taking Orwell back to Burma
- The Real George Orwell and the BBC
- Orwell Day
- Entries for 2013 prize close on Wednesday
- Merry Christmas
- Reaching for my Gnu
- Press release: Irrawaddy Literary Festival
- Raja Shehadeh imagines change with The Orwell Prize
- Open the curtains
- A visit to Wigan
- Orwell Prize statement
- The Most Dangerous Moment in British History, Secrets of the 1962 Missile Crisis
- Entries are arriving for The Orwell Prize 2013
- Our twentieth prize is open for entries
- Orwell Prize 2013 Announces Judges, Opens for Entries
- The Orwell Prize launches ‘Buy a book for Burma’ appeal
- The Orwell Prize and the Green Dragon
- Remembering Jura
- A summer on Jura
- On Jura
- Eric Hobsbawm: thought and worked until the end
- Orwell’s England
- Great Lives
- Treading Orwell’s road to Wigan
- Poverty then and now: Orwell and his successors
- Why I wrote Dead Men Risen
- Animal Farm
- The Sporting Spirit
- Rangers Tax-Case on writing politics
- Buxton video
- Orwell’s Kitchener poem
- Orwell the book reviewer
- Buxton Festival and The Orwell Prize
- Happy Birthday to George
- Burmese Days
- Coming Up for Air
- Dickens and O’Shaughnessy
- 1984
- 2012 Winners Announced
- Orwell Prize 2012 winners announced
- 2012 Winners to be announced on Wednesday
- 23rd May Awards Ceremony
- An Invitation
- 2012 Shortlists Announced
- Orwell Prize 2012 Shortlists Announced
- Debate: Our overwhelmingly white media are inevitably delivering ‘white news’.
- Shortlist announcement and debate on 24th April
- Happy Easter
- 2012 Longlists Announced
- Orwell Prize 2012 Longlists Announced
- Longlists to be announced on Wednesday
- Orwell and poetry
- Anniversary of The Road to Wigan Pier’s publication
- The Lion and the Unicorn
- Orwell on Stage
- Press release: Record number of entries for Orwell Prize 2012
- This year’s entries
- Entry Deadline Next Week
- Reflections on Gandhi
- Merry Christmas
- Orwell and The Observer
- Scotland and St. Andrew’s Day
- Full Judging Line-Up Confirmed
- Orwell Prize confirms judging line-up
- Open for entries, launch debate video, and lecture
- Orwell Prize 2012 Announces Judges, Opens for Entries
- Launch 2012, ‘Writing the Riots’
- Poverty and Political Blogging – Videos from Cheltenham
- Orwell, Raffles and Gulliver
- One week to Cheltenham
- Orwell on Tramping
- The Orwell Prize and Johann Hari
- Report on Johann Hari
- Johann Hari returns Orwell Prize
- Press Statement: The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2008
- Orwell in Defence of P. G. Wodehouse
- Orwell’s Hop-Picking Diary Blog
- Orwell Prize to Blog Orwell’s Hop-Picking Diary
- At the Cheltenham Literature Festival
- Orwell on Hop-picking
- Buxton Festival video
- Statement on Council of the Orwell Prize meeting about Johann Hari
- Update on Orwell Prize Investigation into Johann Hari
- Buxton Festival Next Wednesday
- Orwell Prize statement on Johann Hari
- Happy Birthday, George!
- At the Buxton Festival, 13th July
- Anniversary of 1984′s publication
- Orwell Prize 2011 winners announced
- Invitation to this year’s Awards Ceremony
- Orwell Prize 2011 Shortlists Announced
- Video from the Oxford Literary Festival
- 2011 Longlists Announced
- Orwell Prize 2011 Longlists Announced
- Newsletter: Invitation to this year’s Longlist Announcement and Debate
- Newsletter: Barnsley, Boys’ Weeklies and Amateur Tramping
- Newsletter: Inside the Whale
- Newsletter: Orwell in Sheffield
- Newsletter: At the Oxford Literary Festival 2011
- Newsletter: Orwell’s notes on Wigan
- Newsletter: Cigarettes and Alcohol
- Newsletter: ‘Did not want to spend night in streets’
- Orwell Prize to blog George Orwell’s Wigan Pier diaries
- Newsletter: Blogging Orwell’s Wigan Pier diary
- Newsletter: Orwell on Kipling
- Newsletter: Entries close 19th January
- Newsletter: Merry Christmas!
- Newsletter: Orwell’s Christmas Pudding
- Taiwan Orwell conference calls for papers
- Newsletter: Orwell and the Oligarchs – watch the Orwell Lecture
- Newsletter: Watch our Orwell and Russia Discussion
- Newsletter: Orwell Lecture 2010 next week – Ferdinand Mount
- Newsletter: Orwell and Russia – event next week
- Orwell Prize 2011 OPEN – judges announced
- Orwell Prize 2010 winners announced
- Orwell Prize 2010 shortlists announced
- Richard Horton: A Thousand Flowers
- Orwell Prize 2010 Longlists Announced
- Gavin Freeguard: Orwell Lecture 2007
- Gavin Freeguard: Orwell, ID Cards, the Citizen and the State
- Blog
- Orwell Prize 2013 Winners Announced
- Orwell Prize 2013 Shortlists Announced
- Orwell Prize 2013 Longlists Announced
- Press release: Taking Orwell back to Wigan
- Taking Orwell back to Burma
- Press release: Irrawaddy Literary Festival
- Orwell Prize statement
- Orwell Prize 2013 Announces Judges, Opens for Entries
- The Orwell Prize launches ‘Buy a book for Burma’ appeal
- Remembering Jura
- A summer on Jura
- Eric Hobsbawm: thought and worked until the end
- Richard Horton: A Thousand Flowers
- Gavin Freeguard: Orwell Lecture 2007
- Gavin Freeguard: Orwell, ID Cards, the Citizen and the State