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

"Special military operation." "Department of Government Efficiency." "Enhanced interrogation techniques." "Alternative facts." We live in a time when governments use lexical distortions to manipulate ...

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 ...

Toward the end of Kits Lane is a thatched cottage, the former home of George Orwell ... and his book “The Road to Wigan Pier” (1936). Orwell admitted his misgivings about criticizing his ...

(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 ...

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 ...

A little-known link to the world famous author George Orwell is now celebrated ... while researching his book The Road to Wigan Pier in 1936. The book, focussing on the bleak living conditions ...

George Orwell is one of the 20th century ... The working and living conditions he observed here formed the basis of The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). 10. His alias was a combination of the names ...

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 ...