On Saturday March 16th members of the Orwell Society met at RAF Cosford, a museum, for a day of education on the period of the Cold War. Members Paul and Sue Rowlands reflect on their day. * * With 2019 the seventieth anniversary of the publication of 1984, RAF Cosford and its museum of the…Read more Cosford 2019
Fourth George Orwell Studies Symposium At Goldsmith's College, London Thursday May 9th 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets free. It's been 70 years since the publication of one of the most influential novels in the history of modern literature, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Goldsmiths, in association with the Orwell Society, presents a day of argument,…Read more 70 Years of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Winner of student dystopian fiction prize announced Jon Platten, a student on the University of East Anglia’s MA Biography and Creative Nonfiction programme, is the winner of this year’s Orwell Society Dystopian Fiction Competition. According to the judges, his story, ‘The Report’, cleverly captured some intriguing dystopian elements (such as the Aspiration Compliance Centre, Communications…Read more Dystopian Fiction Result
1936 and 2019 A short film about George Garrett’s meeting with George Orwell in Liverpool in 1936 will feature on BBC TV's The One Show on Tuesday 12th March. The film feature George Orwell’s son, Richard Blair, and George Garrett’s grandson, Sean. Orwell was researching his seminal work on poverty in Britain in the 1930s,…Read more Orwell and Garrett in Liverpool
The Orwell Society Bursary scheme has closed to applicants for this year. Our Chair Richard Lance Keeble reports that we have received applications from students in universities as far north as Yorkshire, and as far south as Sussex, as well as from students studying in two British capital cities. Individual applications will be forwarded…Read more Bursary Applications 2019
One of George Orwell's purposes in writing Homage To Catalonia was to give an account of events by one who was there. As Orwell was in Barcelona during the 'May Days' of 1937 which were headlined as a 'Trotskyist Rising' using 'Hidden Arms' by the British Communist press his rebuttal is particularly valuable. Orwell…Read more Pitcairn, Campbell and Orwell
Record Entries for Dystopian Fiction Prize Professor Richard Lance Keeble reports that the 2019 Orwell Society Dystopian Fiction Prize has now closed, with a record number of entries being received. There have been 50% more entries than last year, with students from universities and colleges in England and Scotland submitting work. Our three…Read more Record Entries 2019
