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On first looking at J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) and George Orwell (1903-1950) they appear to have little in common, as men or writers, other than being peculiarly English authors with evergreen book sa...

This revelatory history shows just how deeply embedded slavery is in the foundations of modern Britain

Foreign ‘invasion plots’ have featured in Australian literature for more than a century. Though critiqued by some authors, fears of white erasure endure.

Australia’s wealthiest private schools continue receiving public funding despite mounting budget pressures, raising questions about whether government spending on education reflects need and the broad...

On Thursday the Senate voted not to disallow Labor’s Improved Native Forest Management method, which is designed so big polluters can use forests for carbon offsets rather than having to invest in exp...

“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 F...

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 Muss...

It is as if Holden Caufield is talking to you directly, as his privileged confidant, enlisted in his war against phoniness.

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Le Conseil de Paris a approuvé en juin dernier trois plaques commémoratives consacrées à des écrivains : George Orwell dans le 5e arrondissement, Léon-Paul Fa...

“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...

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“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 magaz...

“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 magaz...

“On the spot where we were standing is a small cabin, built of stones loosely piled together, as a shelter for travellers, which in joke has been named “The Castle of Mont Anvert.” An Englishman of th...

For every generation over the last century, Australian women have been more religious than men. But these charts show gen Z is different.

By Martin Tyrrell * In late 1937, George Orwell reviewed Mairin Mitchell’s Storm Over Spain, along with several other books on the Spanish conflict, for Time and Tide. His comments on the Mitchell bo...

DNA taken from bones excavated in and around the stone circle reveal that migrants from continental Europe played a part in the henge’s creation

The University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.

From frontline reporting to a trailblazing comic novel and a prophetic dystopia, which of Eric Blair’s books is the best?

Save Our Schools rejects the idea that fully funding private schools would achieve equity. What is needed is proper support for public education.

Sir Keir Starmer says he will ban social media sites for under-16s and impose restrictions on gaming and live streaming platforms in some of the most far-reaching online restrictions globally.

“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 F...

It’s back to the future for domineering education departments

A visual stunner, drawing one million people to French cinemas. Photographer Vincent Munier journeys with his father and son through the Vosges, France. Featuri

Changing voting patterns are no longer a reaction to short-term events, they are a rebellion against inequality, says Kos Samaris.

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” George Orwell The information wrestled from the record of an 18th century Chancery suit (Blair v Drake 1754) involving Orwell’s great...

ORWELL STUDIES LIBRARY The first Orwell I owned was a battered copy of Down and Out in Paris and London found in a secondhand bookstore for $1.25. It is still on my shelf. Originally published in 1933...

“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 ...

“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 ...

New research links seismic testing used for oil and gas exploration with decreases in commercial fish catch rates in Victoria's east.

"There are absolutely no statistics that say that because you sent your kid to a private school they're going to do better in life."

Ancient and modern dingo DNA reveals eight genetically distinct groups of dingoes – and the limited influence of domestic dog genes.

A visual stunner, drawing one million people to French cinemas. Photographer Vincent Munier journeys with his father and son through the Vosges, France. Featuri

"This is how the attack by one petro-state (ours) on another (Iran's) may be turning out to be very bad for petroleum, because the only thing history loves more than a surprise party is irony." The C...