The UNESCO registered George Orwell Archive is kept at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê by Special Collections - these free resources, intended for Year 12 and 13s, use items from the archive to explore Orwell's life and career.
Being a Journalist; Then and Now
George Orwell is well known as a fiction writer, but he was also a seasonedÌýjournalist.Ìý He interrogated aspects of British life that he observed around him as well as those he hadÌýexperienced himself.Ìý Writing at a time of great political turmoil (before, during and after the Second World War) and through life changing events of his own, this made for a varied body of work that reveals so much about British consciousness at that time.Ìý It also displays Orwell's consistenly impecable and principled use of the English language.