A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the United Kingdom 50 years ago was finally returned by a mortified borrower. The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was due at ...

Many children will have no idea who George Orwell is, or what he wrote about - but that's about to change for kids at one Wigan school. St Mark’s CE Primary School - a stone’s throw away from the pier ...

The road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell Orwell's examinations of the conditions for the working class in the north of England prior to World War Two and how he became a socialist.

OVER the past few weeks, debates over British fiscal policy have been conducted under the shadow of George Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier", a powerful description of the poverty he found in the ...

As part of our Road to Wigan Pier project, eight decades after the publication of George Orwell's essay, Becky Joyce explains how she used her own experience of addiction and homelessness to launch ...

Wiganer Karen Stephen takes the road to Wigan Pier and finds plenty to enjoy in the winter months. COMING from Wigan, I have long been aware of the old music hall joke regarding Wigan Pier. And, I ...

To judge “Down and Out in Paris and London” and the motives of its author, consider the context of how it came to be written. Orwell began “tramping” and staying in shelters in 1928, when he was ...