Eighty years after George Orwell set off on The Road to Wigan Pier, The Wigan Pier Project is recreating his journey using 21st-century technology. Throughout the anniversary year, we will be ...

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

And as Orwell put it in The Road to Wigan Pier in a way that could refer to the fast food dominated high streets of today, when times are hard, “there is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt ...

George Orwell’s 1937 study The Road to Wigan Pier offers a detailed and graphic account of poverty in pre-war England. On the 75th anniversary of its publication, Anthony Lock examines the ...

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… ...

In 1984 and in Wigan Pier, Orwell’s polemic is less about history than about accommodating flight from modern life. We find it again in Coming Up for Air . It’s a commonplace and popular theme in ...

At the very end of his Wigan Pier journey, Orwell moved on to Barnsley. “I have never seen such a dishevelled person in my life,” miner George Tennant recalled in 1984.

In his 1937 book "The Road to Wigan Pier," Orwell writes that socialism means "justice and liberty." The justice he refers to goes beyond mere economic justice.

The Pier, immortalised by George Orwell's graphic 1937 description of the plight of the working class in his book 'The Road to Wigan Pier', was originally a loading jetty where wagons would pile ...

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.