is still emblazoned on a plaque at the feet of the Mother of ... edging toward the strafed lifeboat full of refugees in George Orwell’s “1984.” Red meat for red state audiences.

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 ...

A blue plaque to commemorate a Victorian child chimney sweep has been unveiled at the place of his death. George Brewster, 11 ...

A blue plaque to commemorate a Victorian child chimney sweep has been unveiled at the place of his death. George Brewster, 11, became trapped in the chimney of a former pauper asylum at Victoria ...

George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” first published in 1949, anticipated our present moment all too well. As part of Winston Smith’s harrowing “re-education” process at the ...

Audrey Hepburn and glam rock musician Marc Bolan are among the stars being honoured with blue plaques celebrating their "profound impact". Plaques will also honour novelist Barbara Pym ...

75 years on, here’s all the ways the 1984 author’s legacy has been abused Seventy-five years after his death on January 21 1950, George Orwell is still used – and abused – as if he were ...

One-time Londoner Audrey Hepburn will be commemorated with a Blue Plaque later in 2025. Image: public domain Audrey Hepburn and Marc Bolan will be commemorated with Blue Plaques in London later in ...

Novelist Barbara Pym, artist Graham Sutherland, ballerina Alicia Markova and Jamaican writer and campaigner Una Marson will also be given a blue plaque. The scheme is run by the English Heritage ...

Hollywood film star Audrey Hepburn and T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan are among those to be recognised with blue plaques in London, English Heritage has announced. People whose creative achievements have ...

South Tyneside Council has confirmed that a passionate antiquarian, a pioneering scientist and two innovative engineer brothers will be honoured with commemorative Blue Plaques this year.

"It was his legacy that he got this blue plaque and we really want to use this to get his name out there so that all children today know about George Brewster." John Fairhall/BBC Joanna Hudson had ...