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Robert Colls’ George Orwell: Life and Legacy (Oxford University Press) is out in January
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland are defining our national story
By Robert Colls
The more the world in which Nineteen Eighty-Four was written has changed, the more it has stayed the same.
By Robert Colls
The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside tells a story of England’s dwindling congregations – and highlights the…
By Robert Colls
The NUM’s defeat in 1985 marked the end of the social democratic era – and the creation of the…
By Robert Colls
An oral history of the bitter Eighties dispute reveals a conflict that went far deeper than just government vs…
By Robert Colls
The writer has become a national treasure, moral arbiter and begetter of biographies: do we need a new one?
By Robert Colls
In the home of both the Confederacy and the civil rights movement, the past is never dead.
By Robert Colls
At a recent gig in Leicester, the duo were just as much a juggernaut as they have always been.
By Robert Colls
The letters of the Northumbrian modernist reveal an idiosyncratic career and an exacting critical mind.
By Robert Colls