Discover the chilling history of the panopticon prison, imagined by Jeremy Bentham as a means to optimize organization and ...

Catholicism gave English literature something it needs to rediscover.

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

75 years on, here’s all the ways the 1984 author’s legacy has been abused Seventy-five years after his death on January 21 1950, George ... to Orwell from hospital, hours before she died ...

The freeze on US development funds, which accounted for nearly 40% of global aid, will have a direct effect on sexual and ...

Orwell, who also wrote the political fable “Animal Farm,” died in a London hospital at age 46 on January 21, 1950, a few months after “Nineteen Eighty-four” was published.

A commemorative coin featuring the image of an eye and the inscription “Big Brother is watching you" is being released to pay tribute to “Nineteen Eighty-four” author George Orwell and mark ...

Orwell died at age 46 on January 21 ... Mint Experience in Wales to strike their own Orwell coin. “The works of George Orwell have influenced generations, and his most famous works are still ...

George Orwell was the most influential British writer since 1945. Many of his neologisms – such as ‘Big Brother’, ‘Thought Police’, ‘Room 101’, ‘Newspeak’, ‘memory hole’, ‘doublethink’ and ...

And chatter among the aristocracy, recorded by George Orwell in his own diary in June ... Mosley said this was ‘Fleet Street at its worst, but it died away’. After her return to the UK in ...