Orwell: Life and Legacy – Robert Colls with Dominic Sandbrook 📚
Join Blackwell’s Oxford for an illuminating conversation about the life, work, and enduring cultural impact of George Orwell. Historian Robert Colls will discuss his new intellectual biography George Orwell: Life and Legacy, offering a fresh account of Orwell’s journey from imperial‑era childhood to his defining role in 20th‑century political and literary thought.
Colls will be joined by acclaimed historian and broadcaster Dominic Sandbrook, known for his bestselling books on post‑war Britain and his work on The Rest Is History.
What to expect:
- 🖋️ A deep dive into Orwell’s life, contradictions, and creative evolution
- 📖 Discussion of Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty‑Four, and Orwell’s political imagination
- 🧠Insights into how Orwell became a global cultural symbol — and how he is often misquoted or misunderstood
- 🎤 A lively conversation between two leading historians