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

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… ...

Passers-by and drivers will have noticed that the clock in the tower of the former Orwell building at Wigan Pier has ...

The Orwell, the pub at Wigan Pier. Manchester’s emergence as the site and center of the industrial revolution was based on the “three C’s”: coal, cotton, and canals.

In “The Road to Wigan Pier” (1937), his first real attempt to merge politics and art, Orwell empathized with British industrial workers but also disputed, according to Ms. Karp, “almost ...

Work on the iconic Wigan Pier, that was promised redevelopment back in 2019, is finally set to start in early 2023. Plans for the site, known as the inspiration for George Orwell’s 1937 novel ...