💡✒️📖 Join Laura Beers (Laura Beers) for two talks in London celebrating the release of #OrwellsGhosts — a timely look at #Orwell's writing and its role in today's #culturewars. '[A] lucid, engaging study.' — The New Yorker See 🧵 below for more info.

Join Laura Beers Laura Beers for two talks in London celebrating the release of #OrwellsGhosts — a timely look at #Orwell's writing and its role in today's #culturewars.' [A] lucid, engaging study.' — The New Yorker See 🧵below for more info.

If you’re around Central London tomorrow, come see me talk #OrwellsGhosts in conversation with ⁦Phil Tinline at ⁦Waterstones Trafalgar Sq.⁩

My sister @beeeeeers told me yesterday that the Orwell's Ghosts holds up well listened to at 2x speed. If you have an Audiobooks account, you can get the book half off at the link below: audiobooks.co.uk/promotions/pro…

Listen! Laura Beers talks to NB Critical Theory 📚 about the brilliant “Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century” newbooksnetwork.com/laura-beers-or…

I had a great time talking Orwell with Phil Tinline last week. If you are around Leeds this Wednesday 7/8, come hear me and Andrew Thorpe talk about the book at Waterstones Leeds. Tickets available at waterstones.com/events/an-even…

Putting together my fall course pages is easily my least favorite part of the summer. My 🧠 invariable manages to forget every non-intuitive Canvas feature between May and August 🤯 🤯 🤯

I laughed so hard I nearly spit out my coffee reading when I got to this line of the article this morning 😂

Confused about what Orwellian actually means and how his work is relevant in our current political moment? Read Orwell’s Ghosts

Excited to see Paul Unwin’s The Promise tonight at @ChichesterFT with #ClareBurt as Ellen Wilkinson

Really enjoyed #thepromise ⁦@ChichesterFT⁩. #clareburt did an amazing job bringing Ellen to life

On the podcast | Laura Beers (Laura Beers) explores the life and times of the writer responsible for conjuring up 'Animal Farm' and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four': spr.ly/6019Y0XjT

Free tonight? Come see me discuss Orwell and contemporary politics with David Smith at Politics and Prose

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I'm doing a book event at Elaine's bookstore in Alexandria on Sunday, Sept. 8. Come join if you're in town! eventbrite.co.uk/e/orwells-ghos… @Eventbrite

75 years after Nineteen Eighty-Four, this course reexamines Orwell's writing and its relevance today. Explore censorship, free speech, inequality, and more. What does "Orwellian" really mean? Find out with Laura Beers. Register: hubs.la/Q02N2vqw0 #Orwell #Literature

Interested in some life-long learning? It's still not too late to register for my three-class course on George Orwell and the modern world. The first Zoom class begins tomorrow (9/5) at 1pm eastern.

She was the first female Minister of Education, fought for justice, equality, women's rights, workers rights, international relations, and was one of the leading political voices against the rise of Fascism in 1930s Europe. Great choice, Rachel Reeves.

She was also, more pertinently, personal private sec to the Min of Health during the 1929 Labour govt and Min of Edu from ‘45-47 — two posts that taught her the art of balancing compassion and a commitment to social justice with tough fiscal constraints. Rachel Reeves

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