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King Charles II & The Battle of Worcester
“The performance lasted only half an hour, but we spent hours in preparation, finding props, constructing the scenery etc., all of which [Orwell] supervised closely. It was ambitious. He arranged for plywood doors on either side to have saw cuts made in them so that Cromwell’s men could break them open with their pikes. It […]
Motihari Days: George Orwell and India (BACSA)
Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, always described himself as coming from an Anglo-Indian family. Reading the recent post about Mussoorie’s Camel’s Back Cemetery at the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia website led me to reflect on some sad tales from my own […]
Gangrel: ‘Why I Write’
Why I Write is one of Orwell’s most widely-read, quoted and anthologised essays. It was published during the summer of 1946 in the fourth and final issue of Gangrel. What can we learn from examining the “pamphlet” where it first appeared besides that the title is a Scots word (from Anglo-Saxon) meaning “tramp”? When George […]
Orwell & Truth
“But the thread that runs through all of Orwell’s writing is his obsession with getting to the truth. If it meant trashing friendships or jeopardising his own success, so be it. In the political magazine Tribune, he wrote in 1944 that ‘almost nobody seems to feel that an opponent deserves a fair hearing or that […]
The Rebellion of the Beasts
“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.” Animal Farm (1945) “This high-minded speech of the deputy hackney-coach-horse seemed to electrify all present; and a most touching scene took place, of the […]
Fading Ink: Melancholy & Archives
“Came home to hear [illegible] Eric Blair is dead.” Jack Common Archival research into the melancholic world of the past, where nearly everyone who lives on the page is long dead, can be incredibly poignant – no matter how long ago the events being recovered took place. Turning the pages of Jack Common’s near illegible […]
Elaine Talbert
I like the visual impact of Twitter Mosaic.
At the same time, I look at each picture and I can think about how much many of these people are contributing to my professional learning on a day to day basis.
I don’t know them as such, but they are having an impact on my life.
Elaine