Search the Orwell Diaries
Subscribe to the Orwell Diaries (RSS)Pages
Blogroll
- 1940 Chronicle
- A. M. Heath
- Airminded 1940
- Algemeen Dagblad
- BBC – Orwell Archive
- BBC – Paul Mason’s Blog
- BBC News
- BBC Radio 4 iPM
- BBC Radio 4 PM
- BBC Radio 4 Today
- BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour
- Blackwell
- Boston Globe
- CBC Radio
- Corriere Della Sera
- Daily Telegraph
- Daily Telegraph – 101 Most Useful Websites
- Daily Telegraph – Allan Massie
- Der Mundo – this blog translated
- Google Map
- Henry David Thoreau’s Journal
- Image Gallery
- L’Express
- LA Times
- Le Figaro
- Le Monde
- Machado de Assis
- Media Standards Trust
- MSN UK
- MST – Martin Moore Blog
- New York Times – Noam Cohen
- NPR
- Online Colleges and Universities – 30 Finest Creative Writing Blogs of 2009
- Online Schools – 100 Best Blogs
- Orwell's Hop-Picking diary blog
- Penguin
- Political Quarterly
- PRI’s The World
- Prospect – First Drafts
- Reuters
- Samuel Pepys
- Sunday Times Top 100 Blogs
- The Bookseller
- The Guardian
- The Guardian – D. J. Taylor
- The Observer
- The Orwell Prize
- The Road to Wigan Pier diary
- The Times – People
- Time
- Top 100 Creative Writing Blogs
- Twitter – The Orwell Prize (official)
- Weekly Newsletter
- Wordpress Showcase
- WW2: A Civilian in the Second World War
- YouTube Channel
Archive
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- August 1938
- July 1938
Tag Archives: London
21.5.42
Molotov is said to be in London. I don’t believe this.
17.4.41
Very heavy raid last night, probably the heaviest in many months, so far as London is concerned…Bomb in Lord’s cricket ground (school-boys having their exercise at the nets as usual this morning, a few yards from the crater) and another … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged ambulances, bomb, guns, Hampstead, London, Lord's, sleep, St John's Wood
2 Comments
1.3.41
The B.s, who only came up to London a few weeks ago and have seen nothing of the blitz, say that they find Londoners very much changed, everyone very hysterical, talking in much louder tones, etc., etc. If this is … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air-raids, blitz, Cheltenham, evacuation, London, Tube
4 Comments
21.9.40
Have been unable for some days to buy another volume to continue this diary because of the three or 4° stationers’ shops in the immediate neighbourhood, all but one are cordoned off because of the unexploded bombs. Regular features of … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged ARP, bombs, delayed-action bombs, Dorset Square, gas, London, stationers
24 Comments
26.8.40
(Greenwich). The raid which occurred on the 24th was the first real raid on London so far as I am concerned, i.e. the first in which I could hear the bombs. We were watching at the front door when the … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air raid, alarms, bombs, East India docks, Greenwich, Huesca, London, Monflorite, newspapers, Spain
6 Comments
19.8.40
A feature of the air raids is the extreme credulity of almost everyone about damage done to distant places. George M.[1] arrived recently from Newcastle, which is generally believed to have been seriously smashed about, and told us that the … Continue reading
3.6.40
From a letter from Lady Oxford[1] to the Daily Telegraph, on the subject of war economies: “Since most London houses are deserted there is little entertaining…in any case, most people have to part with their cooks and live in hotels.” … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Daily Telegraph, entertaining, lady oxford, London, margot asquith
15 Comments
9.1.40
Back home again after nearly a week in London. The frost has now broken but it is still cold, generally damp & misty, & there is still a good deal of ice left on the pools. W.C. has at last … Continue reading
28.12.39
Back at Wallington. Very cold, but no wind. In London there were a few frosts &, round about Xmas, extremely dense mists, making traffic almost impossible. Here freezing hard since yesterday, & snowing all today. Extremely light dry snow, which … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged corrugated iron, egg total, eggs, lavender, London, mice, mist, snow, traffic, Wallington, weather, white leghorn, xmas
7 Comments
Orwell Diaries 1938-1942 