Image Gallery
Image Gallery
Throughout the Orwell Diary entries, you will find links to external websites, the Google Map following Eric and Eileen Blair’s progress, and images hosted on the Orwell Prize website, all of which give more information about and context around the entries.
You can also find the Google Map and images below. Click to enlarge.
Google Map
Images
In chronological order:
August 21 1938 – Diary entry (with newspaper cutting)
September 1938 – Postcard of the SS Stratheden
September 1938 – SS Stratheden Passenger List
September 3 1938 – Dinner menu from the SS Stratheden
September 7 1938 – P&O Guide to Gibraltar
September 10 1938 – P&O Guide to Tangier
September 11 1938 – Eric and Eileen Blair’s deposition papers to British Consul
September 18 1938 – Receipt for rent on villa
September 19 1938 – Eric and Eileen Blair’s ID Cards
October 12 1938 – Bill for provisions
November 1938 – List of local prices made by Orwell
November 1938 – March 1939 – magazine cuttings kept by Orwell from Morocco
20 January 1939 – ‘Moroccan Travel News’
27-8 March 1939 – ‘Radio News’ from onboard the SS Yasukunimaru
30 March 1939 – Breakfast Menu, SS Yasukunimaru
September 1938 – March 1939 – Photographs taken by Orwell in Morocco
September 1938 – March 1939 – Postcards from Morocco
May 27 1939 – Diary Entry (with newspaper cuttings)
December 1, 2008 at 4:16 pm
An absolutely fascinating insight into Orwell’s life. (For me, seeing and getting a feel for the minutiae of everyday life of an historical figure provides a rich contextual background and better understanding of that person.)
These are magnificently reproduced documents that have been properly scanned at a decent resolution, thus are both visually pleasing and not tiring to read. The quality of the scans is such that one can even get a feel for the texture of a document.
They’re a credit to the archivists who scanned them, I only wish others who put almost illegible documents on the Net would take heed.
The whole of is website is an excellent example of the way the Internet should be used.
My thanks to those who produced it.
gw/Sydney/Austraila
February 28, 2009 at 2:19 pm
I would like to subscribe to the Orwell Diaries but when I click on the link provided I only get HTML code.
March 3, 2009 at 9:54 am
@ M. Carter – it should give you a link to the RSS feed – we’ll take a look!
April 30, 2009 at 6:32 am
[...] Morocco, as well as some press cuttings and other items from his time there, have been added to the Image Gallery. Gordon Bowker has kindly contributed an essay on Orwell’s time in [...]
April 30, 2009 at 10:40 am
September 1938 – March 1939 – Photographs taken by Orwell in Morocco: thumbnails have no links to full-sized photos.
Love this blog! Thanks so much.
April 30, 2009 at 6:03 pm
whats the point of this?!?
this is the web – you know, that internet thingy. Its well known for being able to handle text and images on the same page.
Put the pics where they belong.
on the diary page they came from!
April 30, 2009 at 6:16 pm
also, explore the use of the crop tool, and post em as individual images front and back in the same image.
you guys sure look lazy doing it like this.
April 30, 2009 at 6:49 pm
@Eric – should now link to full-size photos. Thanks for pointing that out – glad you’re enjoying the blog!
@cliff – the images are separate from the diaries – so it would be impossible to put them on the diary page they came from, because they don’t come from a diary page.
April 30, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Can anyone enlighten us as to the contents of “Yale pie” as in the P & O menu above?
May 2, 2009 at 3:29 am
Excellent pics. I see the “one-ass plough” but search in vain for the dog skull.
June 24, 2009 at 10:31 pm
this is brilliant. i feel like i know him better now. amazing