# Event Details - **Event Name**: George Orwell: Life and Legacy with Robert Colls - Hatchards, Piccadilly - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Robert Colls will discuss his book 'George Orwell: Life and Legacy' in conversation with Jason Cowley, former editor of The New Statesman.About this EventWe hope you can join us for a fascinating evening about the life and legacy of George Orwell with Robert Colls. About the bookGeorge Orwell remains a work in progress. He is, or has become, a meme, a global writer, a national treasure, a London statue, a scholarly society, a Prize and a Journal, a trope and a show, various movies and murals, too many misquotations, two adjectives, at least half a dozen fictions, and most recently a dead metaphor with plenty more accolades to come.George Orwell: Life and Legacy is an intellectual biography which offers an authentic account of Orwell's life and work from his birth in the high noon of British imperialism in 1903, to his death on the eve of the Cold War in 1950—a life played out against a background of two world wars, the rise of communism, and the war-time pre-eminence of the United States. Yet no matter how alert he was to the world order, and no matter how guarded he was in his personal life, Orwell never shied away from the question of who he was, and the contradictions that entailed.About the AuthorRobert Colls was professor of English History at the University of Leicester before joining the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, also in Leicester. He has written widely on modern British history, and for The New Statesman and the Literary Review, as well as for other newspapers and journals, and on television and radio including, most recently, The Rest is History podcast. His This Sporting Life (OUP 2020) won the Aberdare Prize for sport history writing. His Identity of England (OUP 2002), George Orwell: English Rebel (OUP 2014) and This Sporting Life (OUP 2020) were Books of the Year in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The New Statesman and the BBC History Magazine.James Cowley is a journalist, magazine editor and writer. He is a commentator, feature writer and book reviewer for the Sunday Times. He was editor-in-chief of the New Statesman from 2008-2024, Editor of Granta magazine (2007-2008), and Editor of the Observer Sport Monthly magazine (2003-2007). He was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2019. He wrote the introduction to the Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of George Orwell’s Animal Farm (2021).In 2023 he chaired the judges of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction’s 25th anniversary Winner of Winners Award. His most recent book is Who Are We Now? 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