George Orwell (TRIH ep 208)
1937 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by Professor Robert Colls to discuss the life, politics and literary legacy of George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair). The conversation follows Orwell from his imperial birth in India and upbringing in rural England, through Eton and service in the Burma police, to his essay-writing and 1930s reportage (notably The Road to Wigan Pier).
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1937
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)