Orwell was immersed in the life he lived, loving the small things – planting flowers and vegetables everywhere he lived, making absurd toys for his son Richard. He was a devoted father, and other ...

Orwell was born in 1903 to Richard Walmesley Blair, a mid-level administrator in the British Indian Civil Service, overseeing the production of opium for export to China — a trade that devastated ...

Orwell’s roots were tied to India through his parents. His father, Richard Walmesley Blair, served in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service during the colonial era. His mother ...

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George Norman Rodney Drury Fuller was a young medical student from Maidenhead who volunteered to join the war aged just 18 and who fought in one of its most ferocious battles.

The author's adopted son with his first wife Eileen, Richard Blair, is patron of the Orwell Society. READ MORE: Oxford graduate to make asylum seeker journey in new show The George Orwell ...