Ann Kronbergs, who has recently joined the Orwell Society Committee with an interest in education, offers this overview George Orwell and the 21st Century Secondary School Curriculum How far does the curriculum encourage access to George Orwell’s work in our schools in England and Wales? Here follows a brief review of the current…Read more Teaching Orwell
Did George Orwell ghost at “Liberty Hall”?
In 1996, the letter below was written to, and published by, Geoff Bradley, the editor of CADS: Crime and Detective Stories. 27 April 1996 Dear Mr Bradley, Thank to the skills of Jamie Sturgeon's booksearch, I was reading Alan Clutton-Brock's Murder At Liberty Hall, first published in February 1941 by John…Read more Did George Orwell ghost at “Liberty Hall”?
From the Orwell Archive, July 2017
On Friday July 21st, 2017, members of the Orwell Society, in two parties, visited University College London to see part of the Orwell Archive. OS Secretary Neil Smith thanks archivist Gill Furlong for allowing and organising this visit, and thanks her staff who curated each desk display. Long-time Orwell Society member David Harding took these…Read more From the Orwell Archive, July 2017
Some confusion over Miss Blandish
In 1997 Orwell Society member L J Hurst wrote the letter below to Geoff Bradley, the editor of specialist magazine CADS: Crime and Detective Stories. Thanks to book searches by Jamie Sturgeon and Ralph Spurrier I now have the three editions of James Hadley Chase's No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Three? you ask, but…Read more Some confusion over Miss Blandish
Cricket as a metaphor for sexual equality
In different parts of the UK women seem to have been debarred from working as teachers once they married, in some parts they could continue. Wherever they worked they were paid less than men for the same degree of teaching. In fact, equality was delayed, and one commentator condemned the machinations consequent on it. On…Read more Cricket as a metaphor for sexual equality
George Orwell… in the land of Satyagraha
Bishwajeet Mookherjee explains the background to his film, which is available on Youtube:- "2017 is being celebrated as the centenary of Mahatma Gandhi's Champaran Satyagraha movement. In 1917, Gandhi had arrived at Motihari to protest against the exploitation faced by the Indigo farmers. Here he launched the first Satyagraha movement on Indian soil. But Motihari…Read more George Orwell… in the land of Satyagraha
‘1984’ at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre
Opening Night of '1984' at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre My Two Cents by Carol Biederstadt It may have taken 68 years, but George Orwell finally made it to the big stage of Broadway when Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s 1984 opened at New York’s Hudson Theatre on June 22nd. Premiering in the UK in…Read more ‘1984’ at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre
