A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the United Kingdom 50 years ago was finally returned by a mortified borrower ...
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 ...
Melanie Powell and Wendy Richards are pointing up at the empty shell of the NHS building behind them. “My life was saved up on that floor,” Melanie says, peering inside the worn woodwork of the ...
On my knee is a battered copy of The Road To Wigan Pier, George Orwell’s 1936-7 study of working poverty. Next year will mark 80 years since he arrived here. In December, George Osborne was furious ...