Volume 9   No. 1   (2024)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-839-9 Editorial Finally: The rat has a voice – by Richard Lance Keeble Short Story Nineteen Eighty-Four: The rat's tale – by D.J. Taylor Papers Love, hate and freedom in Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Peter Brian Barry The picture of Winston Smith: George Orwell, Oscar Wilde and the fin de siècle legacy – by Henk Vynckier 'A sinking sensation': George Orwell and the RMS Titanic – by Nathan Waddell Modernism, realism and 'natural narrative': Contrasting 'A hanging' and 'Shooting an elephant' – by Cris Yelland Samuel Butler: The Victorian Orwell – by Hassan Akram Reading Orwell from the Global South – by Débora Reis Tavares Orwell's middle age anxiety – by Carrie Kancilia Interview L.J. Hurst in conversation with Masha Karp, author of the widely-acclaimed George Orwell and Russia Articles Captain Robinson: 'The Most Disreputable Englishman in Mandalay' – by Phil Baker 'A disillusioned little middle class boy': George Orwell, Harry Pollitt and The Road to Wigan Pier – by John Newsinger How I constructed the Newspeak language from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Brennan Conaway Poems 'That bloody book', by John Scarborough; 'Elephant', 'George ponders dictatorship' and 'Shot but full', by Steve Dalzell Book Reviews Sarah E. Cornish on Julia, by Sandra Newman; Douglas Kerr on Burma Sahib, by Paul Theroux And Finally A special diary column for Orwellians - by New Pitcher Volume 8   No. 2   (2024)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-834-4 Editorial Boom times for the Orwell Industry: A cause for celebration - by Richard Lance Keeble Papers George Orwell and Somerset Maugham: A comparative study - by Hassan Akram BBC transcript found: 'The meaning of scorched earth' - by Darcy Moore Article Eileen, '1984' and Nineteen Eighty-Four - by John Rodden Interview George Orwell Studies book reviews' editor Megan Faragher speaks with D.J. Taylor about his latest book, Orwell: The New Life Book Reviews Douglas Kerr on Beasts of England, by Adam Biles; Mir Ali Hosseini on The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War, by Peter Stansky; John Newsinger on The Never End: The Other Orwell, the Cold War, the CIA, MI6 and the Origin of Animal Farm, by John Reed; Richard Lance Keeble on Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr Alex Comfort, Author of The Joy of Sex, by Eric Laursen; Megan Faragher on George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality, by Peter Brian Barry Review Essay Wifedom: Fundamentally Flawed - by Richard Lance Keeble And Finally A new, lively, gossipy column by the appropriately anonymous New Pitcher to intrigue and entertain Orwellians Volume 8   No. 1   (2023)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-821-4 Guest Editorial Engaging Critically with a Writer who Can Still Surprise Us - by Nathan Waddell Papers Big Brother, Big Tech: Doctorow's Little Brother and Huber's Orwell's Revenge - by Jackson Ayres The Essayist's Velvet Fist - by Mir Ali Hosseini George Orwell's Gandhi - by Douglas Kerr What Was Orwell's Conception of Free Speech? - by Mark Satta The Labyrinths of Nineteen Eighty-Four - by Selina-Marie Scholz and Geoff Rodoreda Critically Ill: George Orwell, Tragic Biography and the Crisis of Endings - by Kristin Bluemel Other Papers John Bull's Other Airstrip: Orwell's Irish Blindspot - by Martin Tyrrell George Orwell, Ayer and Russell and the Battle for the Soul of Philosophy - by Peter Brian Barry Articles Orwell in Cornwall - by Darcy Moore The Achievement of Ian Angus - by John Rodden The BBC'S Nineteen Eighty-Four Remastered for a New Generation - by Hassan Akram Attwood's Imaginary Interview with Orwell - by Richard Lance Keeble Pedagogy of the Distressed?: 'Politics and the English language' in and out of the Classroom - by John Rodden Two Poems To George Orwell/Eric Blair - by Paul Abdul Wadud Sutherland A Song for Orwell - by David Punter Tributes to the Founder of The Orwell Society Dione Venable's Contribution to the Development of Orwell Studies - by Quentin Kopp Dear Dione - by Darcy Moore Book Reviews Kristin Bluemel on George Orwell: The New Life, by D.J. Taylor; Bryan Yazell on The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950, by Luke Lewin Davies; Peter Brian Barry on George Orwell's Perverse Humanity: Socialism and Free Speech, by Glenn Burgess; Richard Lance Keeble on In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility, by Costica Bradatan And Finally New Pitcher (appropriately anonymous) launches a new, lively diary item to intrigue and entertain Orwellians Volume 7   No. 2   (2023)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-813-9 Editorial Peter Davison: A Giant Among Orwell Scholars - by Richard Lance Keeble Tributes 'The Complete Works: Clear, Reliable, Scrupulous - and Beautiful' - by Douglas Kerr 'Esteemed by Other Orwellians for his Readiness to Offer Help and Encouragement' - by Darcy Moore Farewell & Hail, Peter! - by John Rodden 'He Was Nothing if not a Completist!' - by Richard Young How Peter Lives on at Birmingham University - by Nathan Waddell 'Peter: My Wonderful, Supportive Friend for 10 years' - by Sylvia Topp 'Rather a Great Man' - by D.J. Taylor Why A Literary Life is One of the Best Studies of Orwell - by John Newsinger An 'Unparalleled Feat of Respect, Curiosity and Love' - by Dorian Lynskey Articles Ian Angus's Crucial Role in the Promotion of Orwell Studies - by John Lethbridge Introduction to Publication of Orwell's Original Manuscript for Nineteen Eighty-Four - by D.J. Taylor Richard Young on the Original 1984 Manuscript Big Brother Vladimir? - by John Rodden Book Reviews Martin Tyrrell on Orwell in Cuba: How 1984 came to be Published in Castro's Twilight, by Frederick Lavoie (translated by Donald Winkler); Tim Crook on The Radio Front: The BBC and the Propaganda War 1939-45, by Ron Bateman Volume 7   No. 1   (2022)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-808-5 Editorial The Special Art of Editing and Annotating - by Richard Lance Keeble Papers ‘A Great Prop of the School’: The Important Place of Sunderland Church High School in Understanding Eileen O’Shaughnessy - by Angela Smith Seeing What is In Front of One's Nose: George Orwell's Representation of Social Reality - by Dominic Angeloch Articles The Elephant in the Room: Reassessing the Genre of George Orwell's 'Shooting an Elephant' - by Carol Biederstadt Retracing Orwell's Steps in Wigan - Balancing Curiosity with Respect - by Timothy Foster Authors and Titles Mentioned in The Road to Wigan Pier - by L. J. Hurst Reflections on 'St Andrew's Day, 1935' - by Douglas Kerr Why He Joined the I. L. P: Orwell, Brockway and the Struggle for Socialism - by John Newsinger Mary Poppins at the Ministry of Tweets – by John Rodden Orwell's Rats – by Darcy Moore Book Reviews Darcy Moore on Orwell and Empire, by Douglas Kerr; Richard Lance Keeble on Complete Drama Reviews by George Orwell, edited by Cole Davis, Complete Book Reviews by George Orwell, edited by Cole Davis and Revenge is Sour: Lesser-Known Short Works by George Orwell, edited by Cole Davis; Dennis Glover on Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy, by John Rodden Volume 6   No. 2   (2022)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-800-9 Editorial Letters from Paris Throw New Insights on Orwell – by Richard Lance Keeble Papers Orwell and the Secret Intelligence Service - by Darcy Moore The Problem with Julia - by G. Alexander Denning Disassembling the Myth of the Struggling Artist in George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying - by Rebecca Clayton A Textbook Case: Aligning Orwell and NCTJ Teaching - by Jaron Murphy Articles Joyeux Anniversaires: Peter Stansky at 90, The Unknown Orwell at 50 - by John Rodden Retracing the Steps of Orwell and Dorothy Hare in Kent - by Neil Smith Orwell's Status as a Political Prophet on the Wane - by Nicholas Harris Beyond the 'Nancy Poet' Jibe: Orwell and Auden - by Richard Lance Keeble Orwell, Radio and the Propaganda War - by Ron Bateman In Search of Máirín Mitchell - by Martin Tyrrell Book Reviews Melissa Dinsman on Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine, by Will Loxley; Martin Tyrrell on Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War, by Duncan White Re-Evaluation: Laurence Brander's George Orwell (1954) How One of the (Now Forgotten) First Studies of Orwell Captured the Man and his Writings - by Richard Lance Keeble Volume 6   No. 1   (2021)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-789-7 Editorial The Rich and Constantly Expanding Canon of George Orwell Studies – by Richard Lance Keeble Papers The True Artist: Poverty, Networking and Literary Artifice - by Darcy Moore Nineteen Eighty-Four: The First Sentence - by G. Alexander Denning 'V' is for Valencia: International Brigades' Counter-Intelligence Service Reports about Eileen and Eric Blair in Spain, 1937 - by Gleb Zilberstein, Svetlana Zilberstein and Pier Giorgio Righetti Fags, Facts, Fictions: Orwell and Cigarettes - by Richard Lance Keeble Orwell's Enduring Significance in Courts of Law – by Tim Crook Articles 'The Orwellian Nightmare Come True' - by John Newsinger A Writer Well Worth ... Stealing? - by John Rodden Bertrand Russell and the Forgotten Fallacy in Nineteen Eighty-Four - by Peter Brian Barry Orwell and the Important Muggeridge Archive Revelations - by Richard Lance Keeble Waughfully Good Books? Revisiting Brideshead and Animal Farm at 75 - by John Rodden and John Rossi Book Reviews Laura Hartmann-Villalta on The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom, and the Spanish Civil War, by Giles Tremlett; Peter Stansky on Orwell's Moustache, by Richard Lance Keeble Volume 5   No. 2   (2021)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-782-2 Editorial Dangers of Exploiting 'Brand Orwell' – by Richard Lance Keeble Papers Orwell in Burma: The Two Erics – by Darcy Moore Colonial Collections: Investigating the Libraries of Burmese Days – by Sarah Gibbs Orwell's Stolen Camera: Photographic Authority and Homage to Catalonia – by Ameya Tripathi O'Brien in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A New Interpretation – by G. Alexander Denning George Orwell on the Relationship Between Food and Thought – by Mark Satta The Pleasures and Politics of Food – by Richard Lance Keeble The George Orwell and H. G. Wells Row: Gain and Loss in the Utopian and Dystopian Feud – by Tim Crook Articles In Defence of Eileen (and of Orwell) – by Sylvia Topp New Editions of the Works of George Orwell – as noted by L. J. Hurst Orwelliana – A Writer’s Life in a Collection – by Richard Young Obituaries Two tributes to Philip Bounds by Richard Lance Keeble and John Newsinger Plus Book reviews by Elysia Balavage, Tim Crook, Nick Hubble and Luke Young Volume 5   No. 1   (2020)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-774-3 Editorial Explaining One of Orwell's Strange Prejudices – by Richard Lance Keeble Papers Orwell's Scottish Ancestry and Slavery – by Darcy Moore Menon, Orwell and the Yeats Fascism Debate – by Jaron Murphy Orwell, Advertisements and the Political Economy of the Media – by Richard Lance Keeble Eric and Alaric: Orwell and his Shadow – by Tim Crook Articles Each Herself – Fact, Fiction and Female Identity – by Ann Kronbergs The Hôpital Cochin and the Extraordinary Life (And Death) of Marthe Hanau – by John P. Lethbridge Thoughtcrime … im Zimmer 101 – by John Rodden How TB Can be Traced in ‘Forgotten’ Spanish Civil War Letter – by Gleb Zilberstein, Svetlana Zilberstein and Pier Giorgio Righetti Plus Film Review, Book Reviews, Radio Review and Review Essay Volume 4   No. 2   (2020)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-763-7 Editorial How the Spotlight is Increasingly Falling on the Powerful Women in Orwell's life – by Richard Lance Keeble Papers Orwell in Marrakech - by Kevin Carter Orwell's Aunt Nellie - by Darcy Moore Orwellian or Campbellian? 'Invisible Sources' in Orwell's 'Shooting an Elephant' and Burmese Days - by Carol Biederstadt Orwell's Evil-Scepticism - by Peter Brian Barry Orwell and Dress: The Naked Truth? - by Richard Lance Keeble Article What If He Had Lived … or Waited? George Orwell and Counterfactual Biography - by John Rodden Re-evaluation Stansky and Abrahams: Orwell's First Biographers - by Darcy Moore Book Reviews By Thomas J. Sojka, Polly Hember, Jonathan Greenaway and Daniel Buckingham Volume 4   No. 1   (2019)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-753-8 Rebel? Prophet? Relic? New Perspectives on Orwell Guest Editorial Orwell's Enduring Appeal – by Sarah Gibbs Keynote Orwell, My 'Orwell' – by John Rodden Papers Red Flags, Black Ties: Orwell's Anarchist Sympathies and The Conquest of Bread in Spain – by Dana Wight Surveillance From Orwell to Orwell: The Power of Vision in Popular Culture – by Xiaozhou Li Plus Papers The Politics of the Uncanny: George Orwell and the Paranormal – by Philip Bounds Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Secret State and the Julia Conundrum – by Richard Lance Keeble Articles Memoirs of Orwell: The Quest for the Truth – by Jeffrey Meyers Barnhill: A Labour of Love – by Norman Bissell Leon Gellert, George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Darcy Moore 1984 in 2020: The Deeper Concerns – by Tom Cooper Reviews By Alexis Pogorelskin, Desmond Avery and Richard Lance Keeble Volume 3   No. 2   (2019)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-742-2 Editorial Humour beyond the gloom of Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Richard Lance Keeble Nineteen Eighty-Four and Me An Invitation to Big Brother – by Ron Bateman George Orwell and the Millennial Whoop? The Enduring Relevance of the Music of Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Carol Biederstadt Child Lore in Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Kristin Bluemel '23-F' vs '24-F': On Learning about Orwell at a Momentous Time in Spanish History – by Jesús Isaías Gómez López (Close) Encounters with George? – by John Rodden Patriarchal Norms and Sexual Desire in Michael Radford's Film of Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Martin Stollery Who was Julia? Nineteen Eighty-Four's Many Heroines – by D. J. Taylor Articles Names in Burmese Days: A Fantasia – by Douglas Kerr Orwell and Captain Robinson's 'Poet': A More Than Cautionary Note – by Phil Baker Orwell in Paris: Who Was Ruth Graves? – by Darcy Moore Gordon Bowker: So Wonderfully Insightful into Orwell the Man and his Writings – by Richard Lance Keeble Re-evaluations Tombs: Sharing Orwell's Penchant for Puncturing Shibboleths – by Darcy Moore Plus Book reviews Volume 3   No. 1   (2018)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-734-7 Special Issue: Orwell and the Arts   Guest Editorial Examining the 'Genius' of Orwell's Art – by Tim Crook Papers Keynote: Orwell and Literary Art – by Len Platt 'The Art of Donald McGill': Orwell and the Pleasures of Sex – by Richard Lance Keeble Performance and Spectation in Orwell's Burmese Days – by Douglas Kerr Orwell, Poetry and the Microphone – by Tim Crook Short Story 2017 My Year of Orwell – and One Last Gift – by Nicola Rossi Article ‘Room 103’: Orwell’s Influence on Contemporary Visual Art – by Glenn Ibbitson Other Papers Orwell and the Appeal of Opium – by Darcy Moore Orwell as Social Patriot – and British Cinema Studies – by Martin Stollery Volume 2   No. 2   (2018)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-727-9 Papers 'This Poor Wailer Among the Rebels': Orwell, O'Casey and Ireland – by John Newsinger 'A Strange Desire of Wandering': The Female Body and the Problematic Structure of A Clergyman's Daughter – by Zhang Weiliang Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World: Complementary Visions Reconsidered – by Anna Vaninskaya 'Such, Such Were the Joys' and the Journalistic Imagination – by Richard Lance Keeble Articles More Orwellian than Feminist: Comparing Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale – by Ron Bateman Collecting Orwell: A Kind of Compulsion – by Darcy Moore Plus Book reviews Volume 2   No. 1   (2017)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-717-0 Special Section 1: Teaching Orwell, edited by Tim Crook Papers George Orwell versus Vera Brittain: Obliteration Bombing and the Tolerance in Wartime of Dissent in Weekly Political Publications – by Tim Luckhurst and Lesley Phippen Big Brother is Coming to an iPad Near You: Teaching Orwell in Taiwan – by Henk Vynckier Orwell and the Anarchists – by David Goodway Orwell the Teacher: Such, Such Were the Joys – by Tim Crook Articles Orwell's Children: Fighting for Voice – by Jon Preston The Rhetoric of Doublethink – by Philip Palmer A Short History of Hate – by Sean Cubitt Special Section 2: Orwell and Labour, edited by John Newsinger Orwell, the Labour Party and the Attlee Government – by John Newsinger Leaders and their Qualities: Orwell on Cripps, Bevan and Attlee – by Philip Bounds So What Kind of Democratic Socialist Was He? – by Paul Anderson Plus The Orwell Conundrum in Coming Up for Air: A Call for Action or Passive Resistance? – by Oriol Quintana Death, Hegemony and Masks: Reimaging Theories of Resistance Through the Writings of George Orwell – by Harry Bark Volume 1   No. 2   (2017)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-705-7 Papers The Architecture of Visibility: Blitzed Modernism in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Lisa Mullen Beyond the Common Toad: The Animal in Orwell – by Charlie Salter C. L. R. James, George Orwell and ‘Literary Trotskyism’ – by Christian Høgsbjerg Article It Happened in Burma…Or did it? – by Ron Bateman Plus Book reviews Volume 1   No. 1   (2016)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-693-7 Papers Orwell, Poland and Polish Exiles in Paris and London – by Krystyna Wieszczek George Orwell's Conrad – by Douglas Kerr Orwell and the Anarchists – by David Goodway Only Donkeys Survive Tyranny and Dictatorship: Was Benjamin George Orwell's Alter Ego in Animal Farm? – by Tim Crook (view here) 'The End was Contained in the Beginning': Orwell's Kyauktada and Oceania – by Firas A. J. Al-Jubouri 'The Lesser Evil': Orwell and America – by John Newsinger Articles The Edges of the Empire: The Symbolism of Bladed Weapons in Orwell's Burmese Days – by Don Arp, Jr. The Poet Who Wanted to Shoot an Elephant – by Gerry Abbott Plus Book reviews and news