Professor Chris Brookes (universally known as “Doc”), chairman of Wigan Warriors, agreed the symbolism was striking. “The two ...

The hard-backed copy of George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier was supposed to be back at Hull's Central Library in 1974. Katie Holdstock, from the city's libraries service, said the book would not be ...

Many periodicals recently ran stories about Donald Trump’s second electoral victory leading to a burst of new sales for two old books: George Orwell’s Nineteen ... so The Road to Wigan Pier might loom ...

(Wikimedia Commons) [You can hear Professor Barry discuss George Orwell’s engagement ... In a much-discussed passage from The Road to Wigan Pier, Orwell expressed his preference for patriarchal ...

Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche are obvious candidates. But any list like this has to include George Orwell, the English essayist and the author of two of the most famous political novels of the ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, Wigan Pier nightclub was a mecca for dance music lovers from all over Greater Manchester and beyond. The Pier, immortalised by George Orwell’s graphic 1937 description of ...

Paul Theroux sets out to humanise George Orwell in his latest novel.Credit ... “Orwell hated Catholics and in The Road to Wigan Pier he admitted that he regularly used to hit his servants ...

The sum total of his own writings on the subject after he began publishing as “George Orwell” comprises ... passages in “The Road to Wigan Pier” (1937) and his debut novel, “Burmese ...

"Orwell was someone who “quarried his way ... whether Paris or the industrial north of England (for The Road to Wigan Pier), or the Spanish Civil War. Serving in Spain on the Republican side ...

Wigan Pier' was made famous by author George Orwell in his 1937 book The Road to Wigan Pier. One of the key buildings at the site is the 18th century Gibson's Warehouse, re-built in 1984 as The Orwell ...