Essays and Journalism by George Orwell


1931
The Spike
A Hanging


1936
Shooting an Elephant
Bookshop Memories


1937
Down the Mine
North and South
Spilling the Spanish Beans


1939
Charles Dickens
Marrakech


1940
Inside the Whale
Boys' Weeklies
Charles Reade


1941
The Lion and the Unicorn


1942
The Art of Donald McGill
Rudyard Kipling
A Modern de Quincey by Captain H. R. Robinson. Book review by Orwell.
Looking Back on the Spanish War


1943
Poetry and the Microphone
Mark Twain: The Licensed Jester


1944
Raffles and Miss Blandish
Benefit Of Clergy: Some Notes On Salvador Dali


1945
Anti-Semitism in Britain
In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse
Notes on Nationalism
You and the Atom Bomb
Good Bad Books
Revenge is Sour
Freedom of the Park


1946
A Nice Cup of Tea
The Prevention of Literature
Arthur Koestler
Decline of the English Murder
Books v. Cigarettes
The Moon Under Water. Orwell writes about his favourite pub.
Politics and the English Language
James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution
Confessions of a Book Reviewer
Why I Write
Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels
How the Poor Die


1947
Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
Such, Such Were the Joys


1948
Writers and Leviathan


1949
Reflections on Gandhi





As I Please
In November 1943 George Orwell joined the Tribune as its Literary Editor. His principal contribution there was the writing of a free-flowing political and literary column entitled "As I Please".

Large collection of George Orwell's Tribune columns





Poems by Eric Blair

Awake! Young Men of England
Kitchener
Our Minds are Married, But We are Too Young
The Pagan
Ironic Poem About Prostitution
The Lesser Evil
Poem From Burma
A Little Poem





Politics

Orwell offered writers' blacklist to anti-Soviet propaganda unit
Orwell is revealed in role of state informer
Socialist icon who became Big Brother
Revealed: George Orwell's Big Brother dossier
Orwell's List (New York Review of Books)
Political Writings of George Orwell
Claus B. Storgaard on Orwell's Political Development
Police watched Orwell for leftist leanings
Orwell’s BBC Broadcasts: Colonial Discourse and the Rhetoric of Propaganda
MI5 convinced George Orwell was not communist
How MI5 kept watch on Orwell





History & Reference Materials

Public Record Office (UK)
Britain in India (BBC)
Burma
British Raj
Imperialism
Spanish Civil War
Socialism
Totalitarianism
World War Two (BBC)
Battle of Britain
Propaganda
British propaganda posters of the Second World War
 Orwell's Wigan Pier reinvented for history buffs
History Today article: "Orwell Now"
The Cold War