History Meets Technology – The Orwell Diaries
September 3, 2008 – 5:55 am
How cool would it have been if some of history’s greatest writers would have had access to the internet. Imagine the body of history that would be available if they would have had their own blogs.
Well, the Orwell Prize, Britain’s pre-eminent prize for political writing, has made this vision a reality. They are publishing George Orwell’s diaries as a blog.
The blog (his actual diary entries) begin on August 9, 1938 and continue through October 1942. The blog debuted on August 9, 2009 and the entries will be posted in real-time, exactly 70 years after the entries were written. The diaries are exactly as Orwell wrote them even down to the original spelling errors (they are indicated by a ° following the offending word).
For the historically challenged, the period covered by the blogs includes over three years of entries prior to the United States’ involvement in World War II. Even if you are not a history buff, Orwell’s diaries are an interesting read. Check it out!
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