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5 days ago · The reason why the role of the popular press in 20th-century Britain is deserving of serious and sustained scholarly attention is clearly outlined by Bingham and Conboy in the preface. About 85 per cent of the population saw a newspaper everyday by the early 1950s, and the British people read more newspapers per head than any other nation.
2 days ago · George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. [2] His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism. [3]
- 1928–1950
- Eton College
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1 day ago · Dame Shirley Conran, the designer, journalist, novelist and campaigner, who has died aged 91, in her “zig-zag career” (her words) delighted in launching high-profile challenges to the norms ...
13 hours ago · Robert was a popular government guy. He served as Secretary of War under Presidents James Garfield and Chester A. Arthur and must have been bored stiff with no real wars going on – just skirmishes with Native American tribes out west – so he went into private practice.
