The Orwell Society and, before its formation, its friends who met online at the Finlay Publishers’ website have contributed many articles of interest. This page is designed to be an index to our authors and the subjects on which they have written. We have grouped these as our Vanguard, Contributors, On Orwell’s Books, and More!
Our Vanguard
By Richard Blair
- “1984′ in Pittsburgh – ‘A Trip Worth Making’ (2017)
- Orwell Takes Coffee in Huesca – A Wonderful Exhibition (2017)
- George Orwell in Cranham (2016)
- Life With My Aunt, Avril Blair (2009 Finlay Publishers, 2011)
Lucy Bestley and Jane Morgan
By Sonia Brownell Orwell
- The Euston Road Group (1941, transcribed 2016)
By Bernard Crick
- Orwell as Comic Writer (2008 Finlay Publishers, 2011)
By Peter Davison
- Memoirs (2016)
- The Enigma of Georges Kopp (Review)
- Orwell and Sport (2011)
- Orwell at the BBC: Two Wasted Years? (2011)
- “Dickens – first and last”
- “Orwell Goes East” (2012)
- On parallels between George Orwell & Vasily Grossman (2012)
- Farewell & Hail to [Finlay Publishers’] Orwell site (2012)
Dione Venables
Our Contributors
By Gerry Abbott
By Stephen Armstrong
By Desmond Avery
- The Third Richard (on Richard Rees) 2017
- 1942 – A Well Spent Year Introduction (2012)
- 1942 – A Year Well Spent, part 1
- 1942 – A Year Well Spent, part 2
- 1942 – A Year Well Spent, part 3
- 1942 – A Year Well Spent, Epilogue
By Ron Bateman
- Paranoiacs, Bluebottles – Orwell’s bookshop days
- Writers and Hop-Picking (2012)
By Carol Biederstadt
- Remembering Orwell Again– The Orwell Tapes
- Up and About 2017 – The Orwell Walk
- Railing Against The Railings
- ‘1984’ at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre
- 1984 at the Versus Teatre in Barcelona, Spain
- Animal Farm, at the University of South Carolina
- “1984” National Screening Day: Some Reflections
- Review of 1984 at the Flux Factory, New York
By Philip Bounds
By Dominic Cavendish
- Orwell Week 2013
- Orwell, unsung theatre critic
- Coming Up For Air Re-visited
- Nineteen Eighty-Four just came knocking in 2012
- A few thoughts on Orwell, Kipling and Left-baiting
By Oscar Clarke
By Tim Crook
- Welcome to Dystopia (2017)
By Denis Frize
- The Truth and Mister Blair (2014)
By Christopher Hall
By Rachel Halliburton
By Henry Hitchings
By William Hunt
By L. J. Hurst
- Raymond Chandler, George and Sonia Orwell (2015)
- The Ardizzones, Jacintha Buddicom and Eric Blair? (2014)
- British Pamphleteers Volumes One and Two (2016)
- O’Shaughnessy, Struve, Zamyatin: The Tyneside Braid? (2016)
- World Review: A magazine recommended by Orwell (2016)
- Propaganda – Better To Tell The Truth? Orwell’s Question (2016)
- One Died, One Arrived: 80 Years Ago (Cornford and Orwell) (2016)
- The Adelphi Magazine: A 1930s home for George Orwell (2017)
- Gerrard Winstanley, Diggers, Orwell and Reynolds (2017)
- The Incredible Convergence of Quintin Hogg and George Orwell 1943
- Cricket as a Metaphor for Sexual Equality
- Some Confusion over Miss Blandish
- Did George Orwell Ghost at Liberty Hall?
- The Brass Bottle of 1900
- Hanging by Numbers (Burma and the UK)
- A Night In, 1946 (Orwell’s overnight stay in a Scottish police cell)
By L.J. Hurst and Richard Young
By Richard Lance Keeble
- Hemingway and Orwell: 1945
- “A New Kind of Hero” – Sebastian Faulks on Winston Smith
- Orwell Watched by the Secret State in Wigan (2017)
- Orwell Appreciated; just months after he died (2017)
- Spooks and Scoops: Orwell, Astor and The Observer (2016)
- Chomsky, Orwell and the Myth of Press Freedom (2015)
- Orwell and the spooks
- Orwell – the protoblogger
- Orwell and Leveson
- The cultural icon of today
- Orwell, Astor – and me
By Douglas Kerr
By Quentin Kopp
- Homage to Catalonia, Orwell’s time in Spain revisited
By Ann Kronbergs
- Orwell’s Southwold (I)
- Orwell’s Southwold (II)
- Orwell’s Southwold (III)
- Teaching Orwell (Curriculum 2017)
By Harriet O’Brien
By John Rodden
- Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011): the Orwell of his generation?
By Sylvia Topp
By Steven Wadhams
By Richard Westwood
By Richard Young
Books
Animal Farm (1945-2015)
In August 2015 the Orwell Society sponsored a series of original articles on the origins, development, history and genre of George Orwell’s fairy story Animal Farm.
- Seventy Years Of Relevance: The Birth of Animal Farm by L J Hurst
- Animal Farm – A Sequel, In Three Parts by Nigel Bryant
- Part One
- Part Two
- Part Three
Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1936 -2016)
In April 2016 the Orwell Society sponsored a series of original articles to mark the 80th anniversary of George Orwell’s novel Keep The Aspidistra Flying.
- April 1936: The Publication
- Is Gordon Comstock’s World an Improvement on Gissing’s? by Loraine Saunders
- Getting Closer to the Original Text by Richard Young
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying in Hampstead by Lorcan Greene
- No Surrender To The Status Quo? Orwell’s Keep The Aspidistra Flying by M. G. Sherlock
- Orwell and the Booksellers by Douglas Kerr
- Comstock Footage: The Aspidistra on Film by David Ryan
More
- Wallington Morning by Keith Armstrong
- “Some lie to expose” by Richard Gray
- George Orwell and Me by Christina Thompson
Orwell and the Left Book Club
- Brady’s Spirit and Structure of German Fascism
- Horrabin’s Atlas of Current Affairs
- Macartney’s Walls Have Mouths
Symposiae
- Director Robert Icke and playwright Duncan Macmillan talk to Dominic Cavendish about Headlong’s 1984.
By and About Christopher Hitchens
- Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) by Prof John Rodden
- Christopher Hitchens likening North Korea to Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Why Orwell Matters (Hay Festival address, 2002)
