Orwell Prize and Orwell Archive united

Read more about the Orwell Prize's move to UCL and watch this video about its significance.

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" "I'm delighted that the Orwell Prize has moved to UCL, where we keep the Orwell Archive. The collection of manuscripts, notebooks, original dust jackets and correspondence shows how Orwell's literary work came to life, and gives a sense of the man behind Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell (real name Eric Blair) spent his last days in University College Hospital, and his first wife, Eileen, was a UCL student, so it is a welcome development that the prize named in his memory and his collections are situated in this district."

The move comes at a particularly exciting time for UCL Special Collections as we prepare to open our new reading room to allow wider access to the collection for research and public engagement, as well as supporting UCL's distinctive Connected Curriculum, by enabling UCL students to work on these research materials. We'll be announcing more on the opening of our new reading room soon.

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