Orwell’s Political Pamphlet ‘Solar System’: A Network Interpretation of a British Library Collection
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Treacher, Claudia
Date published
September 22, 2022
Abstract
This article examines the network of publishers, authors and topics included in George Orwell’s Collection of Political Pamphlets at the British Library (shelfmark 1899.ss.1-49.), some of which were catalogued as part of a Ph.D. placement in 2019. It explores how the pamphlets came to be held at the British Library, what cataloguing of the pamphlets has previously taken place, and how the pamphlets offer an insight into the political print culture of the 1930s and 1940s. Most importantly, this article will argue that Orwell’s collection reveals the networks of political print culture of the early twentieth-century in Britain.
Journal title
Electronic British Library Journal
Volume
2022
Article number
5
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
London, UK
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1478-0259
Date accepted
May 17, 2022
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Author note: Claudia Treacher is a doctoral researcher at the University of Brighton (2018-) working on material and visual culture. Her research areas include art and politics during the Second World War in Britain, conscientious objection, and family history. She is a member of the Centre for Design History and the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories.