Orwell on the Isle of Jura(bbc.com)

44 points by vinnyvichy 2 years ago | 16 comments

Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters?(smithsonianmag.com)

43 points by benbreen 28 days ago | 21 comments

Smithsonian magazine article on research suggesting Elizabeth I's male secretaries revised and intensified emotion in her letters to figures like Mary, Queen of Scots.

Drought in Iraq reveals tombs created 2,300 years ago(smithsonianmag.com)

152 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 24 comments

The impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's path to anarchism(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

62 points by anarbadalov 2 years ago | 150 comments

Defiant loyalists paid dearly for choosing wrong side in the American Revolution(smithsonianmag.com)

74 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 107 comments

Orwell Diaries 1938-1942(orwelldiaries.wordpress.com)

121 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 69 comments