December 17, 2010
Newsletter: Merry Christmas!
Before this newsletter takes a break over the festive season, we have a few gifts for you. Read more
December 10, 2010
Newsletter: Orwell’s Christmas Pudding
With Christmas only a couple of weeks away, your thoughts may be turning to preparations for the big day. And if you’re still in need of a Christmas pudding, Orwell may be able to help. In 1946, Orwell was commissioned Read more
December 3, 2010
Newsletter: Orwell and the Oligarchs – watch the Orwell Lecture
We’ve now uploaded the full video of this year’s Orwell Lecture, ‘Orwell and the Oligarchs’, given by Ferdinand Mount. Ferdy – a former Orwell Prize judge (2009), former head of the Downing Street Policy Unit, former editor of the Times Read more
November 26, 2010
Newsletter: Watch our Orwell and Russia Discussion
Full video of our event on Orwell and Russia is now available on our website and YouTube channel. Masha Karp, journalist and translator of a 2001 edition of Animal Farm, and John Lloyd, contributing editor and former Moscow bureau chief Read more
November 19, 2010
Newsletter: Orwell Lecture 2010 next week – Ferdinand Mount
This year’s George Orwell Memorial Lecture takes place next Friday, 26th November. Ferdinand Mount – former Orwell Prize judge (2009), former head of the Downing Street Policy Unit, former editor of the Times Literary Supplement and novelist and author – Read more
November 12, 2010
Newsletter: Orwell and Russia – event next week
Newsletter: Orwell and Russia - event next week | Orwell’s work was highly critical of Soviet Russia and its uncritical adherents, made clear in such works as his proposed preface to Animal Farm. Read more