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, ...

A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the United Kingdom 50 years ago was finally returned by a mortified borrower ...

Road to Wigan Pier 2017: Recreating George Orwell's journey 80 years on and mapping modern Britain. In 1937, Orwell's book about poverty in Northern England shocked the country.

The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was due at the Hull Central Library all the way back in 1974. What would’ve been a hefty fee was eliminated thank… ...

The Orwell, the pub at Wigan Pier. Manchester’s emergence as the site and center of the industrial revolution was based on the “three C’s”: coal, cotton, and canals.

Work on the iconic Wigan Pier, that was promised redevelopment back in 2019, is finally set to start in early 2023. Plans for the site, known as the inspiration for George Orwell’s 1937 novel ...

Nearly 80 years from Orwell's book on the effects of Great Depression, we find soul-destroying hardship – unemployment, hunger, hypothermia and child poverty ...