About the exhibition
George Orwell, arguably Britain’s most iconic and influential author of the 20th Century, wrote 1984 in 1948 a year before he died.
As a work describing the world divided into three main power blocks, each ruled by autocratic and totalitarian governments which maintain control of its population through tyranny and fear, it has left us with several memorable slogans that are as relevant today as they were then.
Today the growth of the three main power blocks of The West, Russia and China…