In response to ‘Blake’s townhouse could be open to all‘ (Guardian 8 September 2026) What did George Orwell say…

* In response to (among others) ‘What different world maps get right – and what they get wrong’ (BBC 5th September…

Orwell and Brieux. In a 1947 column George Orwell drew attention to ‘one of the few sensible things in the army system,…

Did George Orwell say that the lower classes smell? * George Orwell did not say ‘The lower classes smell’, he quoted the…

Retelling Animal Farm Through the Eyes of Orwell’s Raven By Dov Citron * When I began thinking about adapting George Orwell’s…

* Introduction. George Orwell mentioned many people in his writings who were once well known but are now largely forgotten. They…

In August and September 1931 George Orwell, in his guise as a tramp, went hop-picking in Kent, keeping a diary as he went. In…

* In July 2026, following the Orwell Society’s visit to the places where George Orwell went hop-picking during his tramping…

By Martin Tyrrell * In late 1937, George Orwell reviewed Mairin Mitchell’s Storm Over Spain, along with several other books on…

Harold Rubinstein: The Life and Work of a Literary Lawyer * Introduction. Law and Literature have long been bed-fellows. Think of…