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 ...

Royal Mint The United Kingdom’s Royal Mint is releasing a new coin honoring George ... Born in 1903, Orwell spent his early career working with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma.

To mark the 75th death anniversary of George Orwell (1903-1950 ... he joined the Indian Imperial Police and served in Burma, then part of British India, for five years. He returned to Britain ...

Reflecting on his time as a sub-divisional police officer in Moulmein, Burma, Orwell said ... began his metamorphosis into George Orwell — a writer determined to confront power in all its guises. Even ...

Writing as a disillusioned civil servant in British Burma, George Orwell predicted that the empire would die of its own inertia: “Year after year you sit in Kipling-haunted little clubs, whisky to ...

George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm, will be celebrated on a new £2 coin design. Released to mark 75 years since the author’s death, the reverse or tails design of the Royal Mint coin ...

To honor George Orwell’s 75th death anniversary, the Royal Mint released a special 2-pound coin celebrating his novel 1984, reflecting on his complex legacy.

George Orwell is about to take his place in British numismatic history. To mark the 75th anniversary of the famously anti-authoritarian writer’s death, the Royal Mint is commemorating his life ...

Eric Arthur Blair, universally known as George Orwell, the genius behind the thought ... was the daughter of a teak merchant in Burma (modern-day Myanmar).