Laura Beers is a historian of modern Britain, and author of the award-winning Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist; and Your Britain: Media and the Making of the Labour Party. A professor at American University, she comments frequently on British politics for CNN and the BBC.

‘[A] lucid, engaging study…. Beers reaches a satisfying synthesis, writing that Orwell illuminates how “to resist the temptations of totalitarianism in favour of a more open and democratic socialism.”’

• Introduction: WHAT’S ORWELLIAN? 1. FROM ERIC BLAIR TO GEORGE ORWELL: The Making of a Writer 2. THE THOUGHT POLICE: Censorship, Cancel Culture, and “Fake News” 3. ISMS: Populism and Tyranny 4. INEQUALITY: Accents and Manners and the Cut of Clothes 5. PATRIARCHY: The Vote, Equal Pay, and Reproductive Rights 6. BLUEPRINT FOR REVOLUTION: Making the Case for Democratic Socialism AFTERWORD: For Freedom’s Sake Acknowledgments Notes Index

Laura Beers is a historian of modern Britain, and author of the award-winning Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist; and Your Britain: Media and the Making of the Labour Party. A professor at American University, she comments frequently on British politics for CNN and the BBC.

‘[A] lucid, engaging study…. Beers reaches a satisfying synthesis, writing that Orwell illuminates how “to resist the temptations of totalitarianism in favour of a more open and democratic socialism.”’

• Introduction: WHAT’S ORWELLIAN? 1. FROM ERIC BLAIR TO GEORGE ORWELL: The Making of a Writer 2. THE THOUGHT POLICE: Censorship, Cancel Culture, and “Fake News” 3. ISMS: Populism and Tyranny 4. INEQUALITY: Accents and Manners and the Cut of Clothes 5. PATRIARCHY: The Vote, Equal Pay, and Reproductive Rights 6. BLUEPRINT FOR REVOLUTION: Making the Case for Democratic Socialism AFTERWORD: For Freedom’s Sake Acknowledgments Notes Index

Laura Beers is a historian of modern Britain, and author of the award-winning Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist; and Your Britain: Media and the Making of the Labour Party. A professor at American University, she comments frequently on British politics for CNN and the BBC.

‘[A] lucid, engaging study…. Beers reaches a satisfying synthesis, writing that Orwell illuminates how “to resist the temptations of totalitarianism in favour of a more open and democratic socialism.”’

• Introduction: WHAT’S ORWELLIAN? 1. FROM ERIC BLAIR TO GEORGE ORWELL: The Making of a Writer 2. THE THOUGHT POLICE: Censorship, Cancel Culture, and “Fake News” 3. ISMS: Populism and Tyranny 4. INEQUALITY: Accents and Manners and the Cut of Clothes 5. PATRIARCHY: The Vote, Equal Pay, and Reproductive Rights 6. BLUEPRINT FOR REVOLUTION: Making the Case for Democratic Socialism AFTERWORD: For Freedom’s Sake Acknowledgments Notes Index