"The Francisco Franco dictatorship in Spain lasted almost 40 years, from his military invasion of the Second Spanish Republic in 1936 and three years of civil war to his death in the fall of 1975," ...

Making The Civil War: 25 Years Later. Special | 28m 19s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War.

George Orwell was the wintry conscience of a generation which in the ‘thirties had heard the call to the rasher assumptions ...

English writer George Orwell was born on this day in 1903. Here is a quiz on one of the most well-known and prolific writers ...

Another was Orwell’s Nose (2016), described by its literature professor author John Sutherland as a “pathological biography”. It analysed the role of smells in Orwell’s writing and his private life, ...